my work moves between the visual avant-garde, utopian and dystopian literature, historical pain, and everyday dark humour

i am interested in how beauty, silence, monstrosity, movement, diplomacy, and technocracy reorganise what becomes visible, as well as in what anomalous cases reveal about otherwise normal structures and systems

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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