Lila Rui Lan/蓝睿(b 1996, China) is a London-based interdisciplinary artist working across photography, collage, video, and interactive installation. Her practice explores the tensions between individuals and systems, with a particular focus on technologically mediated structures, as well as social, cultural, and ecological contexts. Through her work, she seeks alternative narratives for more sustainable human–system interactions.
A recurring thread in her practice is the importance of communication, between people, systems, and disciplines. She positions her audience as active participants, inviting them to engage through interaction, reflection, and shared experiences. Whether through sensor-based installations, coded interfaces, or playful game structures, her works provoke awareness of social dynamics, internal projections, and possibilities for a more-than-human future.
Her distinctive visual language often blends subtle humour with quiet absurdity. By appropriating the aesthetics of technology, 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 challenge how we relate to the world and to each other.
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, with outcomes to be exhibited at the festival in June 2026.
In 2024, she was featured in Photography+ (#25 Multiplicity, Photoworks UK) and exhibited in group shows at The Graduate Gallery (Online), C+ Space Gallery (Online), Glasgow Gallery of Photography, The eARTh Space (London), and Boomer Gallery (London).