SHULAN WANG

Shulan Wang (b.1994, China) is a fine art photographer based in Paris and Berlin. She holds degrees of European Master of Professional Photography from Spéos International Photography School, Master of Arts from University of Westminster and Bachelor of Art of China Academy of Art. Her most of works starts from her self-meditation and expect to find the meaning of eternal existence in the missing chaos, and the balance between rationality and poetry inside. They are about the "return" between the human and nature, aiming to find the true selves in our labyrinth of thoughts. Her visual works cover nature, humanity, architecture, still life, and camera- less photography etc.

"We die again and again in countless dreams, we resurrect again and again in countless dreams; What we are seeking is an immutable eternity, although it is not awakened and sharable."
——Untitled Dreams

"Untitled Dreams" is my current project since 2020, and it originated from my self-meditation in the dark period when the covid-19 came. As Nietzsche once said: "It is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep--into the evil." When everything in the world has slowed down, I am also lost in my own labyrinth, and looking for the mirror of inner spirit in the closed, hard dark space, it is with life and death, desire is its knot, and silence is its thought. This labyrinth of thought always surrounds us. Sometimes we don't understand the world even ourselves, however, the only way is to start our journey of Odyssey and open the door of exploration to path of self-creation and self-discovery. Here I am expected to find the meaning of eternal existence in the missing chaos, and the balance between rationality and poetry inside.

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Cover image (work details) - "Echos I", 60 x 90cm, photography