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MOLLY CHENG

Molly Cheng

Contact Information

Email: mollycheng@outlook.com

Instagram: @tonsillarcrypts

Respite (2026)

Crocheted copper wire (7″X 7″X 20″)

Respite explores the act of manifesting memory as a tangible and interactive object. Using wire in unconventional manners to illustrate this, she builds work that integrates her individual understandings with unfamiliarity. She works by crocheting a fine wire to make textile-like material that holds its form when bent. By reimagining the use of wire through crochet, she seeks to create a relationship through interactions with her work. This method is used to capture core aspects of how we remember things. The abilities of this format lets Molly shape her art into an expression of how memories hold an ever-changing quality. This work is a recollection of the unfamiliarity within self and memory.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Molly Cheng is an interdisciplinary artist that bases her work around memory and dreams. She utilizes her work to create works that centre on the idea of holding memory in form. Working within the unfamiliarity within recognizing these intangible forms, she creates works that are inspired by depictions of the body, viscera, and nostalgia. Through her research, she centres around the intersection of experience and memory. She uses these influences to make works using painting and sculpture.

RELATED WORKS

Viscera (2025)

Oil painting on wood panel (10″ X 10″)

This work is explores the sensations within the body. Some more rendered than others, the pieces are a continuing series of memories that have been felt.

I have been fascinated with concepts of bodily reactions and how they are remembered

Inspiration was taken from dreams and memories of my own, depictions of viscera, as well as micro and cell biology. As I work with these ideas, there is a sense of unfamiliarity even in my own memories, some faded more than others. There is an alien quality to these memories when you are not living them. This body of work is an ever-shifting recollection of this thinking.