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The First Chapter : Interview with Kavieng Cheng (English ver.)

This conversation marks the tenth interview in the series *'Defining Moments: The First Start or the Turning Moment'*. We meet Kavieng Cheng, a multidisciplinary artist from Hong Kong whose practice flows between the roles of artist, art director, curator, and fashion photographer. For Kavieng, these are not separate professions but shifting lenses through which she interrogates reality—art as a phenomenological mode of existence, a continuous practice of sensing the world and questioning the given. Her work operates as an archaeology of the micro-psychological, drawn to the pre-linguistic realm: gestures that occur before words form, tensions held in the body, and fragmented moments that escape the conscious filter. Working across print, wood sculpture, and laser-cut forms, she explores the paradox between organic warmth and violent precision—a duality that mirrors the human psyche, structured yet chaotic, resilient yet profoundly fragile. It was her high school teacher Ms. ...

Interview with Mattia Perucca 2024 (English Ver.)



We’re excited to share this follow-up interview with Mattia Perucca. Our first conversation with them took place in 2022, and now, two years later, we’ve had the privilege of reconnecting. This second interview delves deeper into their evolving journey, showcasing how their art and perspective have grown over time.

If you missed our first interview with Mattia Perucca, please take a look at it here. It offers a wonderful introduction to their creative world and artistic vision.

Q. Over the past two years, have there been any changes in your artistic approach or style? What influenced those changes?

A. I think that there were not big changes in my style or artistic approach. i would like to have more time to develop new techniques, but at the moment it is not so easy.




Q. Over the past two years, in your recent exhibitions or social media posts, have you received any audience reactions or feedback about your work that stood out to you?

A. I had some good feedbacks, on average, nothing less and nothing more than the last two years. Unfortunately, it seems that the trend is to pay a lot of money to exhibit one or two pieces, unless you are not in business with an art gallery already. I am not referring to U1 gallery, for which the amount of money was not big by my last experience, but i am referring to the fact that a lot of people/associations use to contact artists like me asking hundreds of euros to exhibit one or two pieces together with a lot of other people, with no challenge for the curators neither for the artist. This kind of events do not give anything more than the event itself to the artist.


Q. Do the sources of inspiration you mentioned before still hold true, or have you found new inspirations in your work?

A. Actually i am moving through the same atmosphere and source of inspiration.


Q. Have there been any changes in your methods or tools? How do you see the impact of technological advancements on your work?

A. I would like to find i way to do some effective abstract, but it is not easy and it needs a lot of experience in my opinion.




Q. Over the past two years, has there been a change in the message of your work, or has it remained the same? What emotions do you hope the audience will experience through your pieces?

A. I think that it remained the same.

Q. Looking back over the past two years, what do you feel you have grown the most in as an artist? How has that growth influenced your current work?

A. In the last year i had some big events in my life, for example i changed my house and this took a lot of time, then unfortunately i had not so big chances to have an artistic growth due to the lack of time. I hope to be more productive now.




Q. Have you experienced any interesting elements or discoveries by chance during your work? How have those experiences impacted your pieces?

A. No, for the moment.






Contact
Artist : Mattia Perucca 
E-mail : mattia.perucca@gmail.com
Instagram : @perru_artworks

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