Ming Lu creates works in a diverse range of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, installation and performance. In her recent works, she takes inspiration from everyday materials and humorously adopts symbols and language from Chinese history. She uses many ordinary daily objects in her works, such as cosmetics (notably lipstick and facial masks), lingerie, hair extensions, furniture and food, transforming them into anthropomorphic playful representations of the female body and the female experience.

Ming Lu is interested in the breaking-up of forms, functions and concepts and their transformation into something new.

By placing pervasive pop-cultural symbols of femininity, fertility, domesticity, beauty and elegance in new poetic and surreal narratives and settings, she separates objects from their contexts, an act of “modifying objects as bodies, or vice versa,” as Lu puts it. With that, she is able to conduct a conceptual and aesthetic play between object and objectification.