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Solid-State Novel ²

PROLOGUE / NULL Current

moleculab Current

Things of a Kind

A Bowl of Water

Identification	Work · 10-WRK-0026
Year	2015
Materials	Deep blue-glazed incense burner (Qing dynasty); resin; plaster; copper
Dimensions	55x120x40cm

A Bowl of Water, detail view

A Bowl of Water — image viewer

A Bowl of Water

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Series

Ice Hole2016–2017

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Yang Qiong is best understood as an author whose practice begins in contemporary art and extends into design, branding, and business. He began his professional contemporary art practice in 2010, and art remains its starting point and long-term core. These are not separate careers, but different media and real-world fields through which the same ideas take form. As his practice has expanded, “artist” alone no longer fully describes its scope. Yang therefore prefers “author” as a broader identity for the whole of his work, without replacing his identity as an artist.
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Solid-State Novel is an artistic concept proposed by Yang Qiong: making art with the methods of fiction, or novel-making. It imagines a world and brings its consequences into reality as objects, archives or even institutions that actually operate. Viewers begin with these visible traces and work backward toward the untold world behind them. The concept emerged from his artistic practice and continues to develop alongside it.

© 2026 Yang Qiong

Art enquiries: AYE Gallery