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My work moves between the visual avant-garde, utopian and dystopian literature, historical pain, and everyday dark humour, at times returning to a distinctly Wildean aestheticism refracted through the social and moral structures of contemporary cultural politics.

Radicalness in Suspension

From Ge Yu Lu to Ge Yulu

This long essay is published in Made in China Journal (Global China Lab APS/Open Access)

It presents a case study of the widely known — and at times controversial — artist Ge Yulu and his interventionist practice. Through an account of Ge’s life and career, including his early years as a grassroots migrant artist navigating precarity in Beijing, the essay explores how radical artistic gestures are gradually tempered, and often reshaped into more palatable forms that conform to institutional aesthetics. At the same time, it shows how a persistent critical impulse — despite the risks of censorship, social marginalisation, and financial hardship — sustains hope and continues to provoke public engagement.

Image courtesy of the artist and Beijing Commune

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