Mengmeng Luo (b. 1999, Changsha, China) is a London-based moving image artist working across experimental film, expanded cinema and installation. She studied at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London.

Her artistic practice explores the discrepancies that emerge in the transmission, reception, and interpretation of information. Her research engages with communication studies, the cinematic screen, and spatial practices. Drawing on historical events, social behaviours, and personal experiences, she examines how information is shaped by media forms, social institutions, and pre-existing perceptions, and how different modes of communication, spatial contexts, and perspectives can give rise to divergent or even contradictory interpretations of the same information.

Her work also considers the human desire to make sense of things that remain beyond our understanding. For Luo, this persistent search is closely tied to questions of spiritual will: the impulse to keep looking for meaning, even when the information available to us is incomplete or contradictory. She is interested in how memory, intuition, desire and belief influence this process, and why certain experiences stay with us even when we cannot fully explain them. Rather than treating confusion as something to overcome, she sees it as an important part of how we experience and question the world.

Luo approaches filmmaking as a collaborative practice, working with specialists in sound, architecture, performance and moving image technologies. Her films bring together historical material, real events and fiction, often leaving gaps or presenting different accounts of the same situation. Through shifts in perspective, the relationship between sound and image, and the timing of what is revealed or withheld, she invites viewers to question their own assumptions. She is also interested in what the body can communicate beyond language, using performance, movement and recording technologies to explore the distance between physical expression and lived experience.

Alongside her films, Luo develops installations and projects that bring cinematic approaches into physical spaces. She has experimented with removing the screen from an empty cinema, using the layout of an exhibition to shape how a work unfolds, and placing large-scale projections in urban settings. These projects explore how the experience of an image changes depending on where, when and with whom it is encountered.

Her artist film Glitch in the Matrix received the Award at the Athens International Film & Art Festival and was exhibited at the 4th ReA Art Fair in Milano. She was seleted for 18th Arte Laguna Prize in Venice in 2024. Her artist film Omen was seleted for Kitto Prize at London in 2026.

罗萌萌（1999年生于中国长沙）是一位现居伦敦的影像艺术家，她的创作涵盖实验电影、扩展影像与装置艺术。她毕业于伦敦切尔西艺术与设计学院。

她创作围绕信息（information）在传播、接收与理解过程中产生的偏差展开。她的研究涉及传播学、电影荧幕及空间。她从历史事件、社会行为及个人经验出发，探讨信息如何受到媒介形式、社会制度与既有认知的塑造，以及不同的传播机制、空间语境与观察立场如何使同一信息产生差异甚至相互矛盾的解释。

她将个人的精神意志理解为一种面对认知局限时仍然试图寻找答案的力量。人无法完整地认识自身或周围的世界，却始终需要依靠不充分的信息作出判断，并在未知中寻找可以相信的事物。她关注这种追寻如何与个人的记忆、直觉、欲望和信念交织，以及那些无法得到解释的经验，如何在人的意识中长期存在。对她而言，困惑并不只是需要被消除的状态，它也可能成为人重新理解自身与世界的起点。

在创作实践中，罗以导演为核心，与声音、建筑、表演及影像技术等不同领域的创作者合作。她借助电影制作中的分工与现场协作，发展作品的叙事和视听形式。她常将现实事件、历史材料与虚构情节结合，通过不同视角之间的矛盾、声音与画面的错位，以及叙事中被遗漏或延迟的信息，使观众不断调整对事件的判断。她也关注身体所传达的信息与个人真实经验之间的差异，尝试通过表演、动作与影像记录，呈现那些难以被语言准确描述的感受。

她同时将电影的创作方法延伸至展览和公共空间。在不同项目中，她尝试将剪辑关系转化为观众在空间中的行走路径，在空置影院中移除银幕，重新安排观众之间的观看关系，或将大尺度影像投射至城市空间，使作品与日常人流相遇。这些实践使她能够在银幕之外继续研究信息如何随着观看的位置、时间和环境发生变化。

她的影像矩阵中的故障 ( Glitch in the Matrix )在雅典国际电影艺术节上获奖，并在2023 年米兰 Rea艺术博览会上展出。2024年，她入围了第 18 届威尼斯拉古纳艺术奖。她的艺术家电影预兆 (Omen)在2026年入围伦敦基托奖。

Exhibition

2026

Annex by the Kopple project, London, England

2025

Stage, SET Woolwich, London, England

UNR gallery, Reno, America

2024

Arrest for Five, Bie BOX, Beijing, China

Southern Monsoon, XLY MOMA, Chengdu, China

18th Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy

IDEA!, XLY MOMA, Chengdu, China

2023

Rea Art fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy

HEXY art, Fish Island, London, England

Goldfish never forget, Honghuli sapce, Nanchang, China

Lift-off film maker session, Vimeo

Athens International film art festival, Athens, Greek

An intimate process of strangeness, Lucky Pot gallery, London, England

VR exhibition, Parallel festival, London& Hongkong

Magazine/ Publication

2025

Curating as Creation: Events on the Stage| By JunYu wen&Qiao

Barbagelata art Foundation| by curator Sophia Alvarez

UAAD ART| by Amy Jiang

2024

Night on Earth| by White blindness studio

Snap collective

ISSUE 15

101 contemporary artists and more

Al-Tiba9 artist interview

2024 The 99 Future chip artists

2023

Rea art! IV Edition

Discover the artists

Awards

2026

Kitto Prize finalist, London, England

2024

Arte Laguna finalist, Venice, Italy

2023

Athens International film&art festival award winner, Athens, Greek

2022

International lift- off film sessions selection award