“打毛衣” (“knitting sweaters”) references domestic labour in 1980s–90s China. This 2 day live installation reactivates knitting socially and materially through metal, with continuous public knitting performances emphasizing process, openness, and transformation.

"Jing BAI is a multidisciplinary artist working across visual art, film, theatre, and writing. Through a fusion of realism and surrealism, her practice explores identity, memory, feminism, and the human condition, with a focus on social structures and marginalised voices.

She is currently developing *Knitting Sweaters*, an ongoing installation series that reactivates knitting as both material and conceptual framework. By replacing yarn with unconventional materials — including metal, plant matter, and recycled plastics — the work examines labour, care, intergenerational memory, and the transformation of matter over time."

Jing BAI on instagram @zisang

Part of The Stitch that bit back: exhibition Curated by Chlöe Savage and Katarína Orolínová.
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Jing BAI, knitted jumper

Jing BAI, knitted sweaters