Muchuan

MUCHUAN

CONTACT

@14nr3n on Instagram

mu0.0chuan@gmail.com

Muchuan (b. 2001) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer, currently based in London. She holds a BA in Art and Technology at the Xi'an Jiaotong–Liverpool University (2023), and obtained an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (2024).

Working across sculpture, installation, and mixed media, she has critiqued how social constructions and pervasive stereotypes control us. Muchuan explores the position of invisible individuals, pays attention to aesthetic differences and price classification, and discusses the underlying social distinctions. Her work treats the seemingly ordinary commodity as a tool for escape, seeking cracks in the social hierarchy to critique, and opening spaces for distance from the threat of power.

She is interested in small commodities that have a common feature, which is the widespread use of bright and vivid neon. Although the busy patterns and strong colours should have been eye-catching, they remain marginalised, hanging on the verge of being lost, and flowing into the hands of hidden individuals. Muchuan assumes that any individual who has been coloured by neon is in danger of being shielded by systems, ignored by people, and downgraded by society. The colouring phenomenon of fluorescent pigments reveals a potential social distinction.