“We do not enter the future by discovering it, but by imagining it together.”
Nyo Jinyong Lian is a Paris-based transnational artist working across staged photography and moving image. She approaches the image not as representation, but as a site where relationships are constructed, tested, and destabilized.
Through carefully staged encounters—often among women—she builds fragile systems of trust. These images do not document reality; they produce it. The image is never complete until someone steps into it.
Working across performance, tableau, and cinematic image-making, her practice uses fiction as a form of social architecture—staging conditions in which new forms of collective life can emerge.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Fisheye Gallery during Les Rencontres d’Arles, InCadaqués Photo Festival, the Sigg Art Foundation, Tianfu Image Art Center, and PhotoSaintGermain.
In 2025, she received the Grand Prize at the 212 Photography Festival and the Jeunes Talents Prize. Her artist book Trust Me was shortlisted for the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson Self-Published Photobook Award.
