Jinyong Lian
About
News
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« Common Ground », MISK Foundation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Polycopies book fair
Selected projects
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Trust Me (Ongoing project)
The naming of a day
Dummys or Mockups
Award
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Finalists, Women Photographers Grant 2025
Winner, Jeunes Talents 2025 — Les Agents Associés
Winner, 212 Photography Istanbul
Finalists, PhMuseum 2025 Photobook Award
Exhibition
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« Common Ground », MISK Foundation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Under water exhibition, 09.10.2025 - 26.10.2025, InCadaqués Photo Festival
« Trust me », solo show, 09.10.2025 - 26.10.2025, InCadaqués Photo Festival
« Trust me », solo show, 11.09.2025 - 26.09.2025, Gallery Madé, Paris, France
« Sous les paupières closes », group show, 07.07.2025 - 05.09.2025, Fisheye Gallery, Arles, France
« Une imagination qui ne pardonne pas », group show, Fisheye Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
Vivere A-Metropolitano x PHmuseum, group show, 2025, Ferrara & Po Delta Park, Italy
Beaux-Arts de Paris, degree exhibition, 2022, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
Press
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Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
Fiction for Remaking Society, Fisheye Magazine
Un cadavre exquis d’images, L’oeil de la photographie
A Surreal Dream in Arles, Fisheye Magazine
Cour de l’Archevêché, Les Rencontres d’Arles
Publication
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Photo book “Trust Me”
Zine “Chance Pairing”
Commercial Collaboration
Canon × Fisheye
Editorial
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Kaltblut Magazine
Officine Générale
Ice Watch
Email
Instagram
The naming of a day is an ongoing photographic series that began during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic — a moment when the illusion of everyday order quietly cracked.
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Shot mainly in monochrome, the images stage ambiguous scenes where female characters inhabit fragmented interiors, caught in gestures that hover between suspicion, witness, and silent resistance. These photographs borrow the codes of crime scenes, yet refuse any clear narrative. Instead, they frame a space for doubt — inviting viewers to assemble their own version of events, based on personal histories, identity, and unconscious fears.
Conceived as a visual investigation into unseen forces — authority, power, complicity — this series questions how violence can be masked by the ordinary. Shadows, hands, vacant rooms become psychological landscapes, shifting between reality and projection.
The naming of a day is the prelude to Trust Me, and remains an evolving body of work. As I move between cities and contexts, the project grows with new clues, new suspicions.
Rather than offering fixed answers, it becomes a rare collection of visual enigmas — an invitation to engage with the invisible architectures that govern both images and relationships.
