AN EXHIBITION of experimental photography and moving image is on display at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.
After the Image, a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Jiayue Wang, is on view at the venue’s Balcony Gallery.
The exhibition centres on Jiayue’s single-channel video work After the Image, alongside a series of experimental photographs.
Working through physical collage and layered imagery, she traces what she describes as the ‘afterlife’ of a photograph – “the period after the shutter closes in which colour drifts, contours loosen, and the image slowly dissolves back into light.
“The works ask what remains of a photograph when it is no longer in the service of documentation or representation.
“Here, photography finds a different way to grow.”
Jiayue Wang was born in China and is based in London. She holds a Master of Arts in Film Studies from University College London, alongside earlier degrees in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies from Newcastle University.
Her practice spans experimental moving image, photography, and generative art, and is concerned with questions of identity, belonging, and emotional memory across cultural contexts.
In 2024, she received the Emerging Virtuoso Award at the Cityscapes International Competition.
Her work has been presented internationally, including at Aqua Art Miami, Blank Wall Gallery Athens, and the Glasgow Gallery of Photography.
After the Image at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, her first solo museum exhibition, runs until Saturday June 27.
