# Project Description

Dream Commune

Iman Wu

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Iman Wu is a multidisciplinary photographer and visual artist working across photography, AI-generated imagery, sound, and painting.

Moving from a socialist society into a hyper-globalized world, she developed a fascination with how ideology lingers as emotional infrastructure — shaping desire, memory, and the subconscious long after belief dissolves.

Closely informed by sociology, her work examines how we continue to perform belonging within systems that are no longer fully trusted.

Iman Wu is a multidisciplinary photographer and visual artist working across photography, AI-gene...

College London College of Communication

Course MA Commercial Photography

Graduation year 2026

Dream Commune explores the rupture between individual identity and collective memory following the collapse of socialist grand narratives. As a young artist from a socialist country, Iman is sensitive to the tension between the ‘collective’ and the ‘self’, often experiencing ‘pre-nostalgia’ – imagining how the future might long for this moment. Using a surreal visual language, the work envisions a post-socialist utopia where ideology dissolves and individuals drift amid pleasure and illusion. Photography, AI imagery, experimental video and sound interweave to show how dream-like structures still shape the hidden core of reality.

Final work

Dream Commune

Dream Commune explores the rupture between individual identity and collective memory following the collapse of socialist grand narratives. As a young artist from a socialist country, Iman is sensitive to the tension between the ‘collective’ and the ‘self’, often experiencing ‘pre-nostalgia’ – imagining how the future might long for this moment. Using a surreal visual language, the work envisions a post-socialist utopia where ideology dissolves and individuals drift amid pleasure and illusion. Photography, AI imagery, experimental video and sound interweave to show how dream-like structures still shape the hidden core of reality.

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