Licheng Ling Projects is pleased to present Light's Turning, the first solo exhibition by Yumo Wu in Europe. Beginning with the artist's attentiveness to the spatial context of the exhibition site, the show unfolds into a poetic meditation on the past and future of photography. The exhibition brings together her recent works in cameraless photography, digital photography, and AI-generated imagery, with traces of the body, perception, literature, and fantastical imaginings embedded with them.

Paris Photo selected one of her works for its Bicentenary of Photography program, where Yumo Wu is the youngest and the only Chinese artist included.

Yumo Wu, born in Inner Mongolia, China in 1995, currently lives and works in Beijing, China. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA, in 2021, and her Master of Fine Arts in Photography with Mention Excellent from the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL), Switzerland, in 2023.

As an artist dedicated to photographic creation, Wu regards the camera as an extended organ, its functions continuously intersecting with the perception of the naked eye. The logic of photographic technology is disrupted, and perception itself becomes the methodology. Through this approach, she precisely captures the blurred, trembling, and malfunctioning critical moments within reality, seizing and reconstructing dynamic instances and emotional experiences, and re-creating them into new realities that subtly shift from the world as we know it.

Her solo exhibitions include Another Past (upcoming, Shanghai), Light’s Turning (upcoming, Paris), Eyes Unfold Distance (2025, Shanghai), and The Room Without a Clear View (2025, Kyoto). Her recent work has been presented at the Foto/Industria Biennial in Bologna, Italy, and at institutions including the Guangdong Museum of Art, Modern Art Museum Shanghai, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center in Seoul, and 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo. She has also taken part in international photography festivals including Kyotographie in Kyoto and Rotterdam Photo Festival, among others. In 2024, she was nominated for the C/O Berlin Talent Award in Germany.