The Second Chapter : Interview with Kavieng Cheng (English ver.)
The eighth conversation in our series, The Artist’s Muse, introduces Kavieng Cheng, an artist for whom art is not merely a vocation, but a phenomenological mode of existence. Born in Hong Kong and refined through her time at Central Saint Martins, Kavieng navigates the roles of artist, art director, and photographer as a fluidity of gazes. To her, these are not separate professions, but shifting lenses used to interrogate the unspoken textures of human life. Kavieng’s practice is a rigorous archaeology of the micro-psychological. She is possessed by the pre-linguistic realm—the gestures that occur before words form and the tension held in the body. She seeks out the fissures in social performance: a one-second hesitation or a tremor in a gaze. These fragments, which she envisions as reflexive surfaces, serve as gentle mirrors that dissolve the boundary between the observer and the observed, inviting us to encounter our own submerged truths. In this dialogue, Kavieng ...
