Shi Jiayun & Yumo Wu
Fleeting Shadows
Aug 11 - Sep 10, 2025
Gao An Road, Shanghai
Licheng Ling Projects unveils the duo exhibition Fleeting Shadows by artists Shi Jiayun and Wu Yumo, nestled within a century-old private apartment on Gao’an Road in Shanghai. In spaces marked by traces of life—living room, bedroom, and foyer—the paintings and photographs engage in a silent, yet profound dialogue. In the recent reflections of both artists, painting and photography no longer exist in isolation, but instead form an interwoven, symbiotic relationship. The exhibition’s title metaphorically alludes to the boundless blending of mediums and evokes the viewer’s experience within the space—a subtle quest to capture the shadow’s elusive perception within the gaze.
The exhibition opened on August 10, 2025, with public viewings by appointment from August 26, continuing until September 10.
Shi Jiayun born in 1992 in Chongqing, China, she currently lives and works in Shanghai. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Oil Painting from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2014 and her Master’s degree from the New York School of Visual Arts in 2019.
Shi Jiayun’s work begins with a painterly way of seeing—where lines, colors, and shapes gradually transform into a language for digesting the visual world. In these incidental, delicate, and specific fragments of perception, sensory awareness quietly expands. Through painting, she organizes, records, and connects these fleeting, fragmented visual memories.
Yumo Wu born in Inner Mongolia, China in 1995, currently lives and works between Beijing, China, and Düsseldorf, Germany.
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 Honors from the École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL), Switzerland, in 2023. As an artist dedicated to photographic creation, Wu Yumo 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 recent works have been exhibited internationally at prestigious venues including Foto/Industria Biennial in Bologna, Italy; Power Station of Art in Shanghai, China; Platform-L Contemporary Art Center in Seoul, South Korea; Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in China; 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo, Japan; Rotterdam Photo Festival in the Netherlands; Padova International Photography Festival in Italy; Kaunas Photo Festival in Lithuania; Noorderlicht International Photography Festival in the Netherlands; Beijing Tang Contemporary Art; ShanghART Gallery in Shanghai; The ShopHouse Gallery in Hong Kong; Gene Gallery in Shanghai; Culterim Gallery in Berlin; ImaginaryZ Space in Hangzhou; and 46 Gallery in London, among others.
Her work has been featured in leading international art and photography publications, including Foam Magazine, China Photography, and Jia Za Zhi. She is the recipient of the T.C. Colley Award from Rhode Island, USA, and the Prix La Fonciere from Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2024, she was nominated for the C/O Berlin Talent Award in Germany. Through her continuous artistic practice, Wu Yumo is dedicated to expanding the expressive power and possibilities of photography as a contemporary art medium, establishing herself as a prominent representative among young Chinese photographic artists.