Youwei Luo
Born in China and shaped by a multicultural upbringing, Youwei Luo spent his teenage years in Morocco before settling in London, where he is now based. His early interest in form and structure grew into a broader investigation of spatial and visual language through sculpture and computational art. Informed by personal history and cross-cultural experience, his work explores the relationship between physical and digital media. Through abstraction and process-based experimentation, Luo engages with ideas of transformation, memory, and the shifting nature of identity. Luo continues to expand his practice through material exploration and conceptual research, with a focus on how contemporary experience can be expressed through visual form and constructed space.
"Unfolding" is a photographic series that delves into the liminal spaces between memory, imagination, and reality. Rooted in a monochrome aesthetic, these images resist clear interpretation, instead inviting viewers into ambiguous visual environments shaped by intuition rather than logic. The series challenges traditional photographic boundaries—of time, space, and form—through the use of experimental techniques such as overexposure, shifting perspectives, and extended exposures.
By fragmenting light and time, the images become portals into a dreamlike state where presence is felt more than seen. Figures dissolve, landscapes flicker, and shadows become protagonists. These visual gestures aim to evoke the fleeting quality of memory, how it folds in on itself, slippery and mutable, offering impressions rather than certainties.
Through this project, the camera becomes not just a tool of documentation but a medium of sensation and inquiry. The boundaries between the inner and outer world collapse, and the work opens a space where ambiguity is not something to be resolved, but experienced. Here, intuition leads the way, guiding both artist and viewer through a shifting terrain where reality and reverie intertwine.
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