Nairui Lu
(She/Her)
Nairui Lu is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores gender, power relations, and individual psychological experience. Her work is primarily concerned with patriarchal structures, women’s rights, social discipline, and the ways individuals understand and shape themselves in response to external expectations.
She is particularly interested in the rules that have become normalised within everyday life: how we learn to become socially acceptable, and how external expectations gradually become internal demands. Social norms, family experience, bodily perception, emotion, and self-judgement repeatedly intersect within her research.
Working mainly through installation, sculpture, and mixed media, she often uses paper pulp, found objects, and metal. She tends to retain the existing social associations of materials, then disrupts them through disassembly, displacement, recombination, suspension, and spatial relationships, allowing familiar objects to lose their previously stable identities. For her, art is not about explaining a fixed answer to the viewer, but about creating a moment of hesitation: when familiar rules are subtly disturbed, why do we feel uneasy? She hopes her work can remain in this unresolved state, turning the act of looking into a reconsideration of how we make judgements.
