ABOUT — MOMO

Bio

Luo Mengmeng (Momo), born in 1999 in Changsha, Hunan, and based in London, is a visual artist and graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design. Her work, spanning film, sculpture, and architecture, creates surreal narratives that transcend time. Drawing from her experience as a journalist and film director, she explores the intersection of societal beliefs, media, and collective memory during significant cultural shifts.

Momo's film Glitch in the Matrix won an award at the 2022 Athens International Film and Arts Festival and was showcased at the 2023 Rea Art Fair in Milan. It was also a finalist in the 18th Arte Laguna Prize in Venice (2024). In 2024, she participated in a residency at Xu Liaoyuan MOMA in Chengdu, China, where she co-created the architectural sculpture Moment. She also published her first artist book, Immobile Deterritorialisation, with Snap Collective.

Statement

In her early film and video works, Luo Mengmeng drew narrative structures from stage plays, using fixed scenes and non-temporal images. Influenced by early 20th-century cinema, she blended commercial film elements with experimental storytelling techniques.

Through this, she recognized the limitations of the two-dimensional film screen in conveying information. While in the UK, she experimented with creating three-dimensional symbols that extended beyond the traditional screen, such as projecting images onto a moving advertising truck during her Chelsea degree show

Her current work integrates architecture, installation, sculpture, and video, inviting audiences to experience fragmented or seemingly meaningless images that provoke emotional revelations and reflections. These experiences aim to stimulate understanding and response, gradually forming a unique, personal experience for each view

Exhibition

2023 -2024

Arrest for Five, Bie BOX, Beijing, China

Southern Monsoon, XLY MOMA, Chengdu, China

18th Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy

IDEA!, XLYMOMA, Chengdu, China

Rea Art fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy

Spectral, London, UK

HEXY art, Fish Island, London, UK

Echoes, St James Parish Church, London,UK

Goldfish never forget, Honghuli sapce, Nanchang, China

Degree show, Mourge space, London, Uk