Solo Exhibition - 2024 Graduate Gallery
Group Exhibition - 2025 RBSA Gallery                              
Group Exhibition - 2025 Huan Photism                                      
Group Showcase - 2025 Photofairs Shanghai                            
Group Showcase - 2025 Moordn Art Fai                                    
Group Exhibition - 2026 AMP Gallery / Koppel Collective




Embracing the Inexplicable departs from a sustained fascination with Brutalist architecture: its raw material presence, its decaying surfaces, and the particular unease these qualities produce in the body of the observer. This unease finds its theoretical grounding in Freud's concept of the Uncanny, that condition in which strangeness emerges not from the foreign but from within the familiar, unsettling the very grounds of recognition.

The series introduces artificial intelligence as a methodological interlocutor rather than a production tool. Working from instinctual and documentary photographic sources, I engage AI's generative constraints as a form of resistance, one that mirrors the partial opacity of the subconscious. The limited and at times unpredictable outputs produced through this process raise a question that the work declines to resolve: whether the resulting image reflects deliberate intention, latent impulse, or something produced in the space between the two.

Recurring interventions of water, drawn from my own dreamscapes, move through the compositions as a counterforce to Brutalism's unyielding geometry. Their fluid, diffuse quality does not dissolve the architecture so much as infiltrate it, introducing an affective register that the concrete alone resists. The resulting images occupy a threshold between documentation and fiction, between revelation and illusion.

Embracing the Inexplicable ultimately examines perception as a destabilized condition. By layering human intuition against algorithmic suggestion, the work interrogates the formation of creative authorship and asks what it means to see, recognize, and claim agency over an image in an era when the boundary between the real and the generated has become genuinely porous.

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