Amber Xiangning Lu

For a show with the subject of 'Gothic', I researched gothic literature, especially Edgar Allan Poe and made a work based on a story I wrote about a murderer. The story's structure is entirely symmetrical, so I made two boxes as the scenography of two balanced rooms. The surfaces are painted with oil paint to create a Trompe l'oeil effect. Here I consider painting as a material to construct a virtual world, similar to the other medium I use. The objects inside the boxes are found or made by 3D print technique. The different arrangements could suggest parallel worlds or just one particular space but at different times.



Installation view at Hüten Gallery, Shanghai