Between Seeing and Being Seen | Wei-Chen Lou

Between Seeing and Being Seen is a photographic exhibition about observation, coexistence, and presence. It brings together two major bodies of work by Wei-Chen Lou: Sublimity in Focus and Do You Want To Be Disturbed Too?
The exhibition uses visual perception as a lens to examine how humans observe the world—and how, in return, the world reflects itself back to us. Between the micro and the macro, nature and civilization, observer and observed, there exists a subtle “circuit of perception” that transforms seeing into a mutual awakening.
In Sublimity in Focus, Lou turns his lens toward the smallest architectures of life—plant veins, petal textures, micro-ecosystems—inviting viewers to experience the poetic and cosmic qualities embedded within the micro-scale.
In Do You Want To Be Disturbed Too?, he expands outward to vast ecological landscapes—Zimbabwe’s wildlife, landforms, and traces of human activity—reminding us that when we look at nature, nature also looks back.
The exhibition invites viewers to experience the oscillation between seeing and being seen:
between detail and wilderness,
between growth and decay,
between humanity and the natural world.

Presented by WA Museum × ALT Alliance × WA+ Virtual Exhibition