Nuit Blanche

• Prize
  Gold in Analog/Fine Art, 1st Place winner in Analog
• Photographer
  Hong Wang, China
• Date of Photograph
  2024
• Instagram
  @lamerdesolaris

Nuit Blanche dwells in the rupture between dreams and waking. Haunted by childhood sleepwalking—and the blinding light that jolted me awake—I use film camera and flash to navigate reality blindly, surrendering sight to intuition. Within this shadowed theater emerges a white peacock, an apparition exiled by its own pallor. Against the engulfing void, it obsessively unfurls its frayed feathers. Its whiteness is not purity, but the glaring weight of absence. Unseen, its broken yet relentless bloom is a silent, existential testament to simply being.

Born in 1994 in Leshan, Sichuan, China, Hong Wang graduated from Spéos International Photography School in Paris. She currently lives and works in Shanghai.

Working primarily with photography, Hong develops a visual language that brings together contemporary image-making, Eastern aesthetics, and poetic narrative. Her practice explores the fragile threshold between the subconscious and liminal states of being, constructing what might be understood as a psychological theatre—one charged with tension, ambiguity, and emotional intensity.

Drawing inspiration from mythology, allegory, and natural