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Lila Rui Lan/蓝睿 (China) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across photography, moving image, and interactive installation. Her practice explores the tensions between individuals and systems, with a particular focus on technologically mediated structures under social, cultural, and ecological contexts. Through her work, she seeks affirmative narratives of human–system interactions, constructing a space for reconnection and reflection. Her distinctive visual language often blends subtle humour with quiet absurdity, behind which lie deeper questions about what it means to be human. By appropriating the languages of technologies, she exposes underlying structures, highlighting both their potential and their limitations. She sees art as a vital connector: a way to bridge fields, translate complexity, and create imaginative, collective experiences that reflect how we relate to the world and to each other.
As a recipient of the Immersive Art UK (Experiment) grant, her new project, Laugh out loud ‘LOL’, will be exhibited at the Linz FMR 26 art festival in June 2026. Her recent projects include Left or Right? (with artist Natascha), exhibited at O-day Festival (2025), and Kill Heroes, shown in NAE 2025 at New Art Exchange, Nottingham. Her work, Whirlpool, was featured in Der Greif (Guest Room curated by Joanna Zylinska & Yanai Toister) and exhibited in the Beijing Midsummer Art Season. In 2025, she completed an online residency with Loop Art Critique and was selected for the FM[Ai]R 26 residency. In 2024, she was featured in Photography+ (#25 Multiplicity, Photoworks UK) and exhibited at Glasgow Gallery of Photography, The eARTh Space (London), and Boomer Gallery (London).