Jiahao Lyu · 吕家浩

Jiahao Lyu

Jiahao is a photographer and visual artist based in London and Ningbo. He works with photography, moving image and installation.

Currently studying in MA photography at the Royal College of Art. Before that, he studied computer technology and science in Nanjing Audit University.

Upcoming exhibitions

25 - 30 June 2022, "RCA Graduate Show 2022", Royal College of Art, London, UK

15 - 19 August 2022, "After The Waiting Room", Copeland Gallery, London, UK

Many different mediums and spaces such as photobook, video, archive, sculpture and website exist within Jiahao's practice. It usually starts from visual experience and some photographic media from everyday life, thinking about the nature of images and trying to explore the possibility of photography as a critical response to mass media, graphic communication and social events. For now, the relationship and in-between state between domestications and spectacles, presence and absence has become a core in his works.

Mixed prints at different levels, 360x210cm.

One and the Only One Broken Chair – Broken steel chair with PU leather cushion, C-print of a chair, Chair 95x89.5x85.5cm, C-print 120x105x75.5cm

This project is a photographic investigation of stains, dusts, residue, scratches, marks and other traces lift in a ceratin space, "home". All of these are byproducts and evidences of human intention or activities in home. Taking photos of them, collecting them and rebuilding them in a new 2D space, which is a process of rediscovering and revisiting every part of a home. I started to notice the potential of stillness and quietness through comparing presence and absence. In my concern, these objects that are very domestic, trivial and easy-to-ignored as a way of challenging ordinary value systems and surrendering to the unconsidered. These traces can be understood as meaningful texts and viewed as beautiful objects, despite their lack of design and specific intention. They stands for a rejection of spectacles, a challenge for the domestication of the everyday surroudings and a question about the establishment of meanings.

Leaving a Fish Tank (2020-Ongoing), Archival inkjet print

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On occasion, I found dozens of “poor images” in the photo album from iPhones which are displayed when I visited almost every Apple Store. Most of these are selfies, lines and cables on the table and screenshots. However, there will be nothing left except the images selected by Apple after 12 hours because the system will delete irrelevant photos before opening the next day. It reminds me of a special film called Fade to Black made by Polaroid and the images showed by this will fade away within 12 hours. It was originally designed for industrial use, so images/documents could be shared and they could be discarded without worry about the information leaking out. With using SX-70 and Fade to Black films to cpoy some of these ”poor images” on my screen, the images’ identity and value has been mixed and dissolved, the function of a certain type of images have also been changed and challenged through playing with the stated values of films and poor images. These images was reborn as an ”object” and the process of dying can be gazed directly and permanently.

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Polaroid Artistic TZ Film FADE TO BLACK Edition (expired)

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