UP Gallery is pleased to present a solo presentation by Taiwanese artist WU Chia Yun at Photo London 2026, marking the debut of her work in London. Recently featured in both the Taipei Biennial and the Taiwan Biennial, WU represents a new generation of Taiwanese artists whose practices engage deeply with questions of identity, history, and perception. UP Gallery brings this presentation to Photo London to introduce her work to an international audience at a pivotal moment in her career.

Presented as part of Source, the booth centers on the theme of memory and loss, bringing into dialogue two major bodies of work: mother-land and A Song for Loss.
WU’s multidisciplinary practice combines photography, installation, and moving image to explore the emotional and political conditions that shape personal and collective memory.

mother-land reflects on Taiwan’s complex geopolitical position and its psychological impact on identity and belonging. Drawing from family photographs, landscapes, and fragmented personal archives, WU constructs layered compositions that evoke isolation, instability, and quiet resilience. Water emerges as a recurring metaphor—suggesting fluidity, uncertainty, and emotional distance—while her interventions through printmaking, drawing, and painterly gestures reimagine the island as both fragile and enduring.

A Song for Loss extends WU’s photographic language into installation, materializing the structure of cinema within physical space. Through staged emptiness, found objects, and suspended narratives, the work evokes a condition of absence and waiting, reflecting the emotional distance between family, homeland, and the wider world. By translating cinematic time into spatial experience, Wu blurs the boundaries between image and object, memory and fiction.

In addition, UP Gallery is proud to present a screening of WU Chia Yun’s film Five, Four, Three, Two in Photo London’s inaugural Film Sector, further highlighting the artist’s expanded moving-image practice.

Through this presentation, UP Gallery underscores its commitment to supporting contemporary image-based artists from Taiwan and bringing their voices into an international context. WU Chia Yun’s work offers a poetic and urgent reflection on the fragile terrain between personal memory and geopolitical reality.