Sara Wu

After taking some photos at the beach, I found that the form of the image had become glossy and flat — almost opposite from the reality.

In this work, I decompose and recompose the cut-off fragments of the photographic space to create a new state of the image, presenting that each form within the image is considered as the dynamic process of the defined system and space is no longer the physical space, but the collection of sensation waiting to be perceived.

I collect a lot of photographs of the overlooked space in daily life. The space is difficult to recognise and define since they have been cropped and transformed to the two-dimensional images.

By suspending the photographic surface to present the materiality of the objects within the image,I am trying to present the relationship between a two-dimensional image and three-dimensionalworld and to respond to the phenomenon of the digital coming before the reality.

Sara Wu (Taiwan, 1994) lives and works in London and is currently undertaking her master’s at the Royal College of Art. She primarily works with photography and sculpture. Interested in the dual relationship between the space and time of images, she explores the complexity and ambiguity of experience in photography and creates new two-dimensional vision states, featuring feature abandoned objects from which any interpretation has been discarded.