{"id":861747,"date":"2026-09-26T21:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861747\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T21:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:04:17","slug":"photographers-artistic-conversation-with-silk-weaver-practicing-ancient-chinese-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861747\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer’s Artistic ‘Conversation’ With Silk Weaver Practicing Ancient Chinese Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kesi is not an easy word to say for an English speaker (it\u2019s pronounced kooh-su), but the art form is recognizable to most Westerners who have even a passing interest in Chinese culture.<\/p>\n

The beautiful silk tapestries made by kesi weavers peaked as an art form around the twelfth century. In modern China, there are only eight people who are officially recognized as inheritors of the traditional kesi weaving technique. <\/p>\n

\"AKesi weaving by Jingwei<\/p>\n

One of them is Jingwei, a young man from Suzhou who spends weeks weaving colored silks around a structure section by section. <\/p>\n

Lexar and Leica teamed up to document this unique artist by hiring photographer Jing Huang. No ordinary photographer, Huang\u2019s work focuses on negative space, documenting the edges of things rather than the thing itself. <\/p>\n

\"FourAn example of Jing Huang\u2019s earlier work.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, photography is not only about recording time,\u201d says Huang. \u201cSometimes it is about forgetting time. What stays in an image is not simply when or where it was taken, but whether it carries a sense of beauty that can still be felt beyond that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, the award-winning photographer\u2019s work is evocative and thoughtful \u2014 glimpses of life that only an empath would see. <\/p>\n

Working on an old Leica SLR and 35mm film, Huang set about having a conversation between himself and Jingwei. <\/p>\n

\"APhotos by Jing Huang.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat makes this project meaningful is the dialogue between the photographer\u2019s eye and the artisan\u2019s hand,\u201d says Linda Warmerdam, the manager and curator of Leica Gallery Amsterdam, where Huang\u2019s and Jingwei\u2019s work has just finished showing. <\/p>\n

\u201cThrough photography, audiences can encounter Suzhou kesi not only as a heritage object, but as a living process shaped by time, patience, and human presence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AnJing Huang\u2019s and Jingwei\u2019s work displayed at the Leica Gallery in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

Huang\u2019s photography is influenced by Chinese ink painting and small-format compositions, looking for stillness, restraint, and balance. Elements that can also be found in kesi. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat moves me most about kesi is its restraint,\u201d says Jingwei. \u201cIt is not a free gesture. It is created within the order of warp and weft, built slowly through time, patience and the experience of the hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"TwoJingwei, left, and Jing Huang, right.<\/p>\n

Lexar, a memory solutions company based in Shenzhen<\/a>, says that despite the project\u2019s analog nature, supporting the exhibition is a \u201cnatural extension\u201d of what it does. <\/p>\n

\u201cLexar has always been close to the creative process \u2014 photographers, filmmakers and creators rely on storage to protect work that often cannot be recreated,\u201d Grace Su, General Manager of Lexar EU, tells PetaPixel. <\/p>\n

\u201cKesi builds an image over time, while photography often captures one in a fraction of a second. But both depend on the same thing: a creator deciding what is worth seeing, and how it should be remembered.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kesi is not an easy word to say for an English speaker (it\u2019s pronounced kooh-su), but the art…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-861747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}