KAI wang
jewelry & Metal (ma)
Royal College of Art
Specialisms: Jewelry / Graphic Design /
Location: London, United Kingdom
KAI wang
First Name: KAI
Last Name: wang
Specialisms: Jewelry / Graphic Design
Sectors:
My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program Title: jewelry & Metal (ma)
About
Kai Wang is a designer with a background in graphic design and visual communication, developed during his studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a recent graduate of the MA Jewellery and Metal programme at the Royal College of Art.
Kai’s practice explores the intersection of visual structure and material transformation. Drawing from his foundations in two-dimensional design, he translates elements such as grids, margins, and layering into spatial, wearable forms. His work investigates the tension between concealment and momentary exposure, reflecting on the instability of presence and the shifting boundaries between inside and outside.
For Kai, jewellery is not merely decorative—it is an active and intimate medium. It responds to the body while extending beyond it, tracing emotional states and enabling subtle forms of communication. His pieces function as quiet gestures: vessels where clarity dissolves, visibility flickers, and meaning emerges in the fragile moments of encounter.
Kai Wang explores fleeting self-existence in crowds, observing public rhythms where he appears and disappears. Through photography and by asking strangers to “find” him, he captures brief moments of recognition that reveal the fragile balance between visibility and anonymity. Fleeting Second translates this sensation into material form: everyday objects frozen and mirrored, then UV-printed onto aluminum, shifting from transparency to clarity. Alongside, a three-second recording of Kai on a train platform was fragmented into 120 stills, riveted into a twisting sculptural line that echoes memory’s disintegration. 1/12 Second turns inward, transforming negative spaces between Kai and others within 1 second into twelve silver brooches. Layered and fragile like pages in motion, their oxidizing surfaces shift from pale gleam to dull yellow, marking time through erosion rather than a clock. Together, these works construct a spectral self-portrait—one that flickers between recognition and disappearance within the unstable space of the crowd.
Competitions
