Chinese show skills at Venice Biennale

Invited artist and Suzhou embroiderer Yao Huifen said she spent 20 years learning the craft.

"My work used to be solely traditional. For this exhibition I engaged in a different process, trying new ways to bring the traditional to the contemporary - it was very enjoyable," she told Xinhua at the beginning of the 57th Venice Biennale, or 2017 international art exhibition in Venice. The exhibition will runs to Nov 26.

Yao and other three artists have been invited to extend and interpret Chinese artistic traditions in a show titled "Continuum - Generation by Generation" at the China Pavilion at this year's Art Biennale in Venice.