-- Artist statement
Due to influence of COVID-19, some of my work in progress is hard to be produced for now. The work "Here and now, there" is a story that mixes reality and a fictional description of my hometown and Tokyo as its subjects. l use a map of China to visualize the landscape of returning home by combining images which cut from the map with the photos taken in my hometown.
On the other hand, with the COVID-19 explosion, a new routine is created, the action of "washing hand, disinfecting hands" has become a very frequent and important act, often mentioned by the government, newspapers, family and friends. I took this new normal life as one perspective, expressed a new lifestyle through photography. The fictional description took me back home and back to the past as well. But the newly created routine always presents me with a return to reality.
Wang Lu 王露 was born in 1989 in Shanxi, China. She graduated from Musashino Art University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Imaging Arts, and is currently enrolled in the Master's program in Advanced Art Expression of the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, in Tokyo. Visualizing moments that usually pass unnoticed, memories, and daily life, she creates stories and fictional narratives using photographic media, exhibiting at galleries and museums in Japan and around the world.
Her awards include Portrait of Japan (2021), LensCulture Critics' Choice 2020, Reminders Photography Stronghold “COVID-19 Pandemic” Open Call Exhibition Grand Prize (2020), and Canon New Cosmos of Photography Honorable Mention (2019). Major exhibitions include “Frozen are the Winds of Time” (Fugensha, Tokyo, 2021) and “Now here, Now there” (Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo, 2020). "Now here, Now there," was published by RPS in 2020.
