my work moves between the visual avant-garde, utopian and dystopian literature, historical pain, and everyday dark humour β€” at times returning to a distinctly Wildean aestheticism

i am interested in how beauty, monstrosity, money, diplomacy, surveillance, and technocratic power reorganise what becomes visible

This long essay was published in Made in China Journal (2026).

Jonas Staal, Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective, 2018. Installation view at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. Image courtesy of the artist.

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to the editors of MiC for their generous and incisive editorial suggestions, which helped me navigate the complexities of this chaotic and controversial case, and to Jeffrey Wasserstrom for his early encouragement to pursue this topic.

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