qīqíqǐqì STUDIO WORKS WITH NATURAL LACQUER AS A MEDIUM BETWEEN HAND AND OBJECT, SHAPING THE WAY WE MEET, USE, AND RESPOND TO OBJECTS.

Craft, unmoored from its geographic anchor, becomes a site of translation between people in the tides of cultural convergence.​ Unanchored Crafting is delighted to collaborate with 20 international artists and the Jewellery & Metal Studio at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, to present their remarkable works during the 2025 London Craft Week. Together, they explore new contexts for craft in an era of cultural fluidity.

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The exhibition features metalwork, lacquer, enamel, CNC machining, and more—intertwined with visual symbols from diverse disciplines, crossing time and space. With acute sensitivity, the artists trace the fractures and reconstructions of materiality, and through deeply personal practices, respond to shifting notions of identity, power, and perception.

Through decoding memory, material, and emotion, a cultural landscape both unfamiliar and alluring takes shape. Here, craft becomes a language of exploration—an imaginative response to an uncertain world.