Can Sun (b. 1992, China) is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, short films, and installation. He earned a BA and MA in Politics, is self-taught in photography, and completed a Master’s degree in Photography at the Royal College of Art in 2022. He currently lives and works in Taipei.
Can Sun’s practice focuses on the absurdity of existence, the translation of individual experience, and the emotional tension between people and the structures of reality. Starting from extremely ordinary and limited materials, he employs a highly restrained formal language to compress and translate personal lived experience into visual structures marked by poetry and subtle humor.
His works are not simple representations of everyday objects, but treat them as containers—using the least amount of material to carry the greatest possible density of time, emotion, and existential experience. Beneath their seemingly light, and even childlike appearances lies a sustained gaze toward the self, relationships, desire, and a disordered world.
This humor is not an escape from reality, but a lucid form of resistance—a recurring inquiry into how one continues to live. For Can Sun, artistic practice is not a proof of style, but a way of continuously recalibrating the relationship between the self and the world.