Jiayin Lu
The Project Lilis
‘The Project Lilis’ is a mixed-media installation, centred on a fictional deep-sea organism called Echinolilis. It was inspired by the artist’s learning journey on feminism as a Chinese woman. The work combines sculpture, image, video, and speculative field notes to construct an observation site for a nonhuman species. Lilis is not a metaphor or fictional character. It is treated as a biological subject with its own behavioural patterns, anatomical diagrams, and internal logic. Through Lilis’s shifting form, the project explores how bodies shaped by gender or aesthetic assumptions can exist outside dominant categories. The project invites viewers to consider what kinds of life are rendered visible, and how scientific or artistic frameworks determine what we are allowed to recognise.
Sharon Huang • Zhitong Kan • Milo Lethorn • Jiayin Lu • Bingxu Qiang • Lei Yu •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Falmouth University
MA Photography
Glasgow School of Art
Masters of Design in Photography
University of Portsmouth
MA Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
Ulster University
MFA Photography