iris wu
Bio: (b.1999, Guangzhou)
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement:
I bring images old and new into relation with salvaged materials and the room. They lean. They press. They interrupt and depend. They risk collapse. Balance is negotiated. Support stays visible and provisional. If something falls, I pick it up and put it back.
The photograph is not fixed but placed, displaced, contingent on what holds it and how. The work accumulates through gestures. The materials hold time.
I work through touch and gap — between the work and the wall, between one thing and another. I test how distance becomes structural, how separation holds tension, how things hold together, or don’t.
iris wu
cross-outs, 2026
Archival pigment prints, gelatin silver print, nails, tape, staples, wire, rope, and salvaged objects
Courtesy of the artist
First Year Exhibition
Iris Wu
baby, 2025
Archival pigment prints
Courtesy of the artist