FENG Yilun (b.1994) was born in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, graduated from the Bissonette Printmaking Academy in Florence, Italy, and now lives and works in Shanghai; 2022 “Another One “Group Exhibition, Shun Art Gallery, Shanghai China; 2021 Photo Group Exhibition “meet the unexpected “, Haaalo Company, Shanghai China; 2019 HAKUCHI Photography Group Exhibition “Innocence”, HAKUCHI, Beijing China; 2018 MU Care Month Collaborative Exhibition “With Us”, Shanghai China; 2018 Independent Artists Group Exhibition “The Ubiquitous”, Shanghai China; 2015 Interviewed by China VICE Channel; 2015 Solo Exhibition “Living on the Street”, 601 Gallery Room Shanghai, China.

1994 Born in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Photographer and darkroom maker

Graduated from IL BISONTE, Florence, Italy – FOUNDATION FOR ART AND PRINTMAKING

2015 Interviewed by China VICE Channel

2015 First solo exhibition “Living on the Street

2017 Self-published album “Fermentation

2018 Participated in the group exhibition of independent artists “The Ubiquitous

2018 Participated in the collaborative exhibition “WITHUS” in MU Care Month

2019 Self-published album “24

2019 Participated in HAKUCHI photography group exhibition “Innocence

2019 Interviewed by Single Reading

2021 Participated in Shun Art Gallery Young Artist Residency Program

Personal work public accounts: Bai Ye La Jj Chang (White night junkyard)

Spirits of Salts

With the popularity and advancement of photography, people have forgotten how precious images are. Photographers have naturally assumed that photography is about the moment as it happens at the moment. Yet this immediacy and objectivity are lost with today’s internet and various convenient retouching techniques. So, I abandoned the contemporary approach to photography and tried to go back to the nineteenth century when images were precious. When I fixed the pictures on these handmade photosensitive salt papers, it was as if the history and emotions that used to be hidden in the information of the negatives were truly restored.

Is the reality of this moment the present moment?

No. These photographs do not belong to the present but cannot be denied as reality. Time is not fixed in photography, like the city and human culture. It is only through photography that I can keep in my memory what is destined to be lost and bring back to life what is passing away. And through the darkroom, I can get myself back to the beginning of my memories again and again.