REUBEN WU
Reuben Wu makes photographs at night, in remote places, using light as both tool and gesture. His practice spans three bodies of work — Lux Noctis, Aeroglyphs, and SIREN, each marking a shift in the relationship between the artist and the landscape. Where his earlier work imposed light onto the environment with precision, the current work moves toward exchange. The gesture is his, but the result belongs equally to the wind, the water, and the conditions of the place.
His images are not documents. They give existence to something that could not otherwise be seen — traces of an event that occurred once, in a specific location, and left no other record. The landscape is the stage. What happens on it is unrepeatable.
THOUGHTS ON THE LAB
It was a pivotal time where I stopped being a hobbyist and started on the path to become a full time artist.