Lu Chungseng is an artist working primarily with photography and video. Lu's interest in breaching the boundary between documentary and fiction is a particularly generative and defining dimension of his practice. His work is deeply inspired by and rooted in his immediate surroundings and the city of Shanghai, where he lives and represents in counterintuitive, paradoxical and disorienting ways, often void of people. Drawn to the documenting of eerie, bizarre situations, Lu produces films that address political realities filtered through the genre of film noir and detective movies. Commonly shot in black and white, the resulting narratives are always non-sequential and absurd, as he imbues them with both an amusing Surrealism and a disturbing sense of fragmentation and alienation.