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Like Everything Too Carefully Put Away

Menglu Yuan

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Menglu Yuan is a Chinese Australian artist currently based in London. Working across painting, installation and sculpture, her works explore collective experiences, the incredibility of memory and investigates the perceived reality of photographic images.

Menglu Yuan is a Chinese Australian artist currently based in London. Working across painting, in...

College Central Saint Martins

Course BA (Hons) Fine Art

Graduation year 2025

This work is an inquiry into images and memory. Images as memory, images as the impossibility of memory, images that metabolise, images that invent, images that elude and images that linger, in places most unexpected. And never forget, that a new permutation takes place with every look, shadows of the past mutate into silhouettes of the future. The happened, the not-happened, the happening, the non-happening...

If it isĀ in the nature of memoriesĀ to be forgotten, then I consider paintings as not the representation of an image but its embodiment, to capture not what was in the image, but what will remain of it. The painting is the afterimage of memory.

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