Danful Yang
Packing Me Softly
2020
H 20 x W 32 x D15 cm
Handmade embroidery on canvas, foam
Unique
Danful Yang explores the process and aesthetics of packaging in her series 'Packing Me Softly' and discusses the attitude of the contents and packaging box itself. Most of the time, we focus on the contents of a container and not the box itself, but the box protects the contents we care about while the box does not get the basic respects. In the society, we care about the clean of the city but most of us do not show the respect to the cleaning people. Here, a taped up packing box is remade in fragile silk hand embroidery, infusing a common object with cares and respect.
The work has been auctioned off during the Charity Auction on March 22nd 2025 and creatively loaned by the generous bidder for Design Trust Charity Exhibition: Transformational Exceptions.
About Danful Yang
Chinese artist Yang Danfeng, born in 1980, is recognized as one of the earliest concept designers in Asia. Her creative process reflects her cross-cultural insights and experiences from living in Shanghai and abroad. By combining objects and materials in unexpected and humorous ways, her works often leave a playful and whimsical impression to the audiences. In 2014, Yang was selected by the internationally renowned art media Artsy as one of the "Trending Designers under 40 at Design Miami/ Basel 2014”. During her exhibition at the Porsche Concept Store in London, her work was praised by the Financial Times as a young artist who "dares to push the boundaries of art and design." Yang's design works have been collected by institutions such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney; the M+ Museum, Hong Kong; and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, among others.
