Introduction

Han Qian (b. 1993, Wuhan) graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She currently lives and works between Wuhan and Kunming.

Her practice spans video, installation, performance, and printmaking. Over the years, she has been concerned with time, memory, and the material traces and historical residues that adhere to them. Departing from micro-histories embedded in family narratives and industrial migration, her work traces the movements and settlements of several generations across rapidly shifting landscapes—re-examining questions of identity, geopolitical belonging, and the uneven textures of historical experience.

Her practice explores how historical experience persists in fragmented forms across bodies, objects, and landscapes. Working with fragile materials, residual bodily traces, and overlooked details, she traces connections between different temporal layers. Through the reconfiguration of archives, memories, and material remnants, she seeks to reveal forms of experience and existence that resist incorporation into linear historical narratives.