An Su is a visual artist mainly working with photography, film and text. She was born in a small town surrounded by mountains in southwest China. The transcendental perception of nature with mysterious imagination is constantly dissolved in her works. She explores in the research of nature, feminism, Postmemory and disease, using specific events and sensitive emotions to start collective narration and historical reflection. She graduated from MA photography at the Royal College of Art in 2022, before that, she studied journalism and literature respectively in Nanjing and Taiwan, which influenced her involvement in visual art and poetics. Her work has always been drawn to poems that contain, within meditative movements, a hint of narrative and a textured visual myth.
An Su’s work has been published on Chip Foto-Video Digital, Source Magazine, and exhibited in A Fragile of China (London, 2021), Gwangju International Art Fair (Korea, 2020), Photo London 2021, Chongqing Biennial of Young Artists(China, 2021). In 2022, her self-published photography book「A Letter-I haven’t seen the ocean until my 19」 was selected for the collections of Odunpazari Modern Art Museum, and her film 「The Distant Mountains」 was selected for The Fifth New Photography Prize and Collection.
