Lila Rui Lan/蓝睿 (China) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across photography, moving image, and interactive installation. Her practice investigates the tensions between individuals and systems to imagine otherwise -- systems that are relational where individuals, communities, nature, and technology are not in competition, but grow together, shaped by and toward one another. Her works transform social and algorithmic systems into participatory structures where people can physically explore and reimagine human relationships with each other and with technology. Two qualities define these works: their participatory nature, communicating through embodied experience, and their openness — the goal is for people to leave with questions, not answers.
As a recipient of the Immersive Art UK (Experiment) grant, her new project Laugh out loud ‘LOL’ was exhibited at Linz FMR 26 art festival in June 2026. Her recent projects include Left or Right? (with artist Natascha Christina Petersen), 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).