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Solid-State Novel ²

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Things of a Kind

Friends from Afar

Identification	Work · 10-WRK-0031
Year	2016
Materials	Pottery figurine (Ming dynasty); red rosewood; ABS
Dimensions	130x9x36cm

Friends from Afar, detail view

Friends from Afar, detail view

Friends from Afar, detail view

Friends from Afar, detail view

Friends from Afar, detail view

Friends from Afar, detail view

Friends from Afar — image viewer

Friends from Afar

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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