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Solid-State Novel ²

PROLOGUE / NULL Current

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Things of a Kind

Top Hat II

Identification	Work · 10-WRK-0036
Year	2016
Materials	Lion (Ming dynasty); white marble; polylactic acid
Dimensions	30x15x50cm

Top Hat II, detail view

Top Hat II, detail view

Top Hat II, detail view

Top Hat II, detail view

Top Hat II — image viewer

Top Hat II

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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