Exhibition by Meitao Qu at the Quench Gallery in Cliftonville, Margate.
Friday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm or by appointment
Meitao Qu is a UK-based Chinese artist working across sculpture, installation and digital media. She holds an MFA from the Ruskin School of Art (2021), funded by the Oxford-Kaifeng Graduate Scholarship, and a BA in Fine Art and Art History, Goldsmiths College (2019).
Taking global spectacles such as World’s Fairs and consumer capitals like Disneyland as sites of inquiry, her practice explores how objects and the built environment carry a visual economy that mobilises ideological narratives for popular consumption, reproduced under the guise of entertainment and play.
Traversing historical and speculative imaginaries, Meitao’s work explores how architecture operates as a mode of worldbuilding that transforms the abstract into the tangible and fantasies into reality. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan (2024) and is currently undertaking a research fellowship at the Institute of Creative Technologies, Norwich University of the Arts.
Free entry
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Decadently Ordinary
Quench Gallery, Cliftonville Avenue, Cliftonville, Margate
CT9 2AH
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