Yang Lu

Statement

My work resists human-centered narratives and seeks to dismantle the illusions that sustain them. I create objects that operate as fragments from elsewhere—mirrored forms, alien inscriptions, and transparent architectures that neither fully reflect humanity nor explain themselves. These works emerge from a refusal to reduce existence to binaries: life and death, self and other, human and nonhuman.

I approach painting, sculpture, and technology as unstable surfaces where meaning collapses and re-forms. CNC contours, 3D-printed structure, and laser engraving glyphs become tools to imagine an alien gaze—cold, detached, and free from empathy—turning its attention back toward human. In this reversal, the viewer is placed in the position of the gazed upon, experiencing the disquieting vulnerability usually reserved for the nonhuman within anthropocentric narratives.

My practice is not about offering resolution but about opening fractures: mirrors that fail to flatter, signs that cannot be decoded, and images that haunt without revealing their origin. Each work acts as a counter-gaze to the gaze, a counter-definition to the definition, pressing the viewer to confront the dangers and limitations of anthropocentrism.