Sound · Moving · Memory
Luo Xiaohan Solo Exhibition
CAM Museum Italy
Xiaohan first solo exhibition in Italy
Exhibition at CAM Museum, Naples
17 – 24 October 2025
As an artist, Xiaohan Luo works across painting, installation, and film to explore how silence can be seen and felt. Her moving image practice, the focus of this exhibition, draws on her lived experience of partial hearing to transform vibration and rhythm into visual and emotional language. Through light, gesture, and movement, Luo translates the sensory world of sound into images that linger between perception and memory.
Her videos unfold slowly, creating spaces where time seems to expand. Rather than documenting, they translate: a flicker of fabric, a trembling surface, a pulse of red that feels almost audible. Each frame carries a delicate rhythm, inviting the viewer to listen through sight and to sense presence within stillness.
This exhibition features Red Veil, Am I… I am?, If Clouds Know, Number, Language & Sound, and A Broken Voice. Together they form a meditation on communication and vulnerability, tracing how memory and identity resonate through quietness and light.Luo’s work invites viewers to approach silence as something alive and shared. In her world, the act of watching becomes a form of listening, and every image carries the echo of what cannot be heard but can still be felt.
During the week of 17th to the 24th October 2025, CAM Museum in Naples hosted a solo exhibition by artist Xiaohan Luo that did something quietly radical. It made the hearing majority confront their own sensory privilege. Luo’s serial of works did not ask viewers for sympathy. They asked for awareness. They exposed how the so-called “normal” way of navigating the world is neither neutral nor universal. Sound, which most people treat as a given, emerged here as an unstable foundation. When that foundation shifted, so did the viewer’s sense of place.
Xiaohan Luo Drapes Her Red Veil Over Naples
written by Clara Whitmore