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Lin Xue
Oslo, Norway
I am a photographer passionate about experimenting with the materiality of different mediums, from analog film and darkroom luminograms to Polaroid. My work often revolves around themes of precariousness and transience, carrying with it a quiet sense of nostalgia. In recent years, I have become increasingly interested in translating my photography projects into artist books, where sequencing, tactility, and rhythm offer new ways of storytelling.
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Publications
Precarious (2024)
The book Precarious encapsulates the moments I have tried to capture over the past seven years—those fleeting and subtle imbalances experienced by people in ever-changing environments. As an observer, I sometimes find myself immersed in these moments, while at other times I remain detached. These fragments of perception are reflected in the images within the book, resembling glimpses caught by chance. Colors and contours intertwine within the images, forming reference points that echo one another, linking each fleeting moment together.
Cyan, Magenta, and Insomnia (2025)
In the liminal state between wakefulness and sleep, known as hypnagogia, vivid imagery and fleeting shapes often emerge, blending the conscious with the subconscious. I sunk on my bed, as inner turmoil and a shadow of despair plunged me into countless nights of insomnia, empowering hypnagogia. In this book, Cyan, Magenta, and Insomnia, photographs captured by microscopy were post-processed to simulate the nightmares and hallucinations that arise from my insomnia period. Expressive colors, particularly cyan and magenta, had constantly appeared in the form of circles with varying sizes and compositions. They were the reminiscence of the micro-scale matters in natural science research I encountered on a daily basis, yet distorted by dread and anxiety. Visualization of these images eventually became a lullaby.
