Textiles
Tokyo, Japan
August 2026, four weeks
Qinnan’s practice draws on Xiaoshan lace traditions inherited from four generations of women in her family in China but moves beyond preservation. She uses lace as a structural language to examine cultural hybridity, ecological thinking, and gendered labor. Combining inherited techniques with contemporary installation and textile strategies—ikat- inspired dyeing, weaving, and disrupted lace structures—She introduces misalignment and irregularity as intentional form. For Qinnan, craft is a living, unstable knowledge: a way to hold stories in materials while allowing them to transform.