Movana Chen (陳麗雲) is a Hong Kong–based female artist and curator. She uses paper-shredders to transform print media into a textile-like material which she knits together to form clothing, containers and structures. Her artworks are a multidisciplinary fusion of media transformation, fashion, performance, and sculpture, which have been presented in exhibitions and events in Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, London and Paris. Early life and education Chen was born in 1974 in Chaozhou, China. She and her family moved to Shenzhen in the mid-1980s and then later to Hong Kong. In the run-up to the handover in 1997, Chen and her family moved to Singapore, where she started pursuing her interest in art and dreamed of becoming a fashion designer. She studied fashion design at the London College of Fashion for a year and later returned to Hong Kong, where she studied accountancy. In 2005, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Hong Kong. In 2007, she finished her Exhibition Studies and Art Curatorship at the Hong Kong Art School. Career She worked as an accountant from 1997 to 2004. After quitting her job as an accountant, she worked as the curator of Hong Kong's YY9 gallery and is currently an independent curator. Artworks, style and technique Famous for her knitting artwork, Chen uses shredded magazine paper as material and weaves them into art pieces using conventional knitting needles. She uses magazines published in different languages, which she believes is a way to appreciate different cultures, by turning books and literature into an artistic form. She has explained that she seeks to examine the relationship between clothes, the media ,and the use of disposable commodities in her art. She also said she wants to show the indifference and alienation amongst people, and that she aims to reduce the distance between individuals and encourage social interactions. Her philosophy is that shredding is a process of transformation, and knitting is a process of creating, and communicating. Knitting is also a way of exploration of the world and ourselves. Her exhibition KNITERATURE, held in 2013, took two-years in the making and 400 books. Knitting Conversations, one of the artworks in the exhibition, is a 15-meter collaborative piece made from books and magazines by 150 participants from the ages of five to ninety from across the globe. Her signature style of art is called "Body Container", which