‘裂’— 河久儿
Layers of red and gold construct a vibrating surface where burning becomes rhythm. Through digital hand weaving, the artist translates the nonlinear expansion of flame. As Gaston Bachelard writes in The Psychoanalysis of Fire, fire is “the most intimate of substances,” igniting both the body and the mind. The fissure marks the awakening of consciousness, revealing release and regeneration within destruction. The textile breathes like flame, collapsing illumination and annihilation into a single instant—fire as a threshold toward transformation.
River was born in Chongqing, China. She graduated from Zhejiang University of Media and Communications with a bachelor's degree and from the Bergen Academy of Arts in Norway with a master's degree. She currently resides in Bergen, Norway. Using photography and textiles as her primary mediums, she focuses on the perceptual relationship between natural elements and the body, as well as the flow of energy on both material and spiritual levels. She uses "thread" as a vehicle for thought and emotion, exploring the inherent tension between "connection" and "distance" through the layers, gaps, and extensions of fabric. Her work lies between figuration and abstraction, transforming natural elements such as water, wood, fire, and earth into a visual language about memory, belonging, and existence. Her practice is deeply influenced by the natural environment and her personal state of mind, constantly forming a self - dialogue through the inspiration of nature, responding to the rhythm and changes of the external world through her work.
