Description:
Welcome to Parallel Space, a chaotic and parallel world. The places that I have been to continue to extend in the depths of my memory along with my professional growth. They merge with my current life, expanding into new dimensions. They are like the echoes of one world to another, or more like places that already exist. There is a metaphor of the past to the future, and a strong conflict with and confrontation from the reality. These seemingly unrelated landscapes are alternately stacking in the depths of my subconsciousness in a poetic way.

Parallel Space is not only a record of my distant memory, but also a thinking of the current world. I believe the world is essentially fictional. The seemingly rational, historical, authoritative, logical, subjective, positional, and faith-based prospective can be obstacle to our understanding of the world. The expression of prejudice will no longer be able to fill in the hole in people’s spiritual world. Simple things are turned upside down, consciousness drifted away with waves, faith no longer a safe harbor, and all spirits go haywire in states beyond description. The theme of parallel space appears to be a personal empirical expression of dreams or a search for photographic expression outside of conventional operations, but in fact it questions previous value systems and the default view of order by magnifying the uncertainties between ontologies. By inertly merging content, visually and verbally subverting the logic of order in the monolithic world we normally default to with the viewfinder, Parallel Space looks like photography’s unconscious poetic rendering of the world. In fact, it reveals the hidden metaphysics of being whitewashed. In parallel space, it seems that the rules from human society no longer apply. I can finally let go of the imprisonment from the real world and perceive the space beyond intuition.
Biography:
Lu Yi-Dan was born in Luoyang, China. She was trained in Stage Design and Product Design at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera from 2012 to 2017. Her work spans multiple artistic mediums including designing, painting, photography, installation, video, and performance art. Since 2018 through further training in photography in San Francisco, Lu began to focus on the composition of the world expressed by the language of photography. Drawing upon Eastern philosophy and using psychology as a conceptual basis, she starts exploring the underlining foundation on which contemporary societies run. Her work is often shot in multiple countries, incorporating local historical and cultural elements. Her photos opened up inter-temporal dialogue with the viewer, extending two-dimensional plane to three-dimensional space to connect with society and nature.
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Lu’s work has been exhibited in various parts of the world: for example, the Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; and Palazzo Ducale di Urbino, Urbino. Her work was collected by the Italian Consulate in Shanghai and was awarded the honorary title in 2013. She has received awards including the silver of PX3 in 2021, the bronze of Moscow International Foto Awards, 2021.

Now, she has lived and worked in San Francisco.