Jiayue Yu crafts visual worlds with a seductive yet cerebral flare, tempting memory, desire, and technology into a love affair. Her photography, 3D renderings, and video work indulge in the desirous tension between presence and absence, and tenderly face the space between the intimate and the alien. With a crisp yet ethereal lens, Jiayue materializes fetishzed objects of longing, and lures them into a dance with her subject – often herself. Desire whispers in Jiayue’s frames, alongside the captivating moments of tender reunions, memory, touch, and re-imagination. Her collection In Retrospect enchantingly embodies Jiayue’s aesthetic language, with a gentle interplay between faces, bodies, and fleeting time.