Ruonan Yan is an artist who finds inspiration in exploring various creative mediums, each offering a unique perspective on the world. Photography has been a lifelong passion for her, a way to capture fleeting moments that resonate beyond the surface.

Although she began focusing intensively on photography during the pandemic, it has become a central part of her artistic expression, particularly in street photography, where the spontaneous beauty of everyday life unfolds.

Yan strives to create images that linger, inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and discover new layers with each glance. Through her work, she aims to capture more than a single moment—she crafts visual narratives that continue to reveal themselves long after the first look.

作为一名艺术家，闫若楠喜欢探索不同的创作媒介，每种媒介都为世界提供了独特的视角。摄影一直是她热爱的艺术形式。

尽管她是在疫情期间开始专注于摄影创作，但摄影已成为她表达内心的重要途径，尤其是通过街头摄影，日常生活的自发与真实之美得以展现。

闫若楠的摄影邀请人们驻足、思考，并在每次凝视中发现新的细节。她希望捕捉的不只是一个瞬间，而是能够持续的视觉故事。

Ruonan Yan depicts peaches in an intriguing way. Her peach paintings are not merely showing a flawless beauty, in addition to that, she likes to present complex emotions under the ecstatic surface.

Peach, the only subject in the paintings, has always been a symbol of youth and desire, two things that always associate with each other. Yan uses watercolor to create a great variety of texture. In her hand, every peach is unique.       

Yan’s other inspirations also include the book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and 1999 movie The Virgin Suicides by director Sofia Coppola .

Although Yan’s peach paintings are often read as a sexual expression, she has never thought of that way. But she doesn’t mind the audience to appreciate her work from different perspectives. 

在桃子系列作品中，闫若楠不仅仅只是想展示一种完美无瑕，而是希望能够表现出一种掩饰在华丽表面下的张力。

在解读桃子系列时，闫若楠经常用玛丽皇后作为参照。她是法国最后一位皇后，一生养尊处优，不知人间疾苦，最终被送上断头台。在闫若楠的想象中，玛丽皇后是一个纯真和邪恶的混合体，光鲜的外表下是一颗极度空虚的心灵。在桃子系列中，闫若楠也试图描绘这种甜美，却带有危险性的吸引力。

桃子一直以来都是年轻和欲望的象征，而这两种东西也互相关联。在现代语境中，闫若楠的桃子系列经常被认为带有性暗示，尽管她从没有这样考虑过。但她也并不介意观众用自己的方式解读她的作品。