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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

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

    No Pain, No Exit

    Endurance and the Limits of Critique

    This essay was published in Critical Asian Studies (Commentary Board, 2026)

    […] Pain is not eliminated but reorganized, absorbed into systems of value, expectation, and identity. If suffering becomes a measure of worth, its absence invites suspicion: ease appears as complacency, rest as weakness, refusal as failure. Alternatives recede not through prohibition but through moral reconfiguration. What remains is a condition in which pain no longer interrupts life, but defines it.

    It becomes what life is — no longer interruption, but condition.

    Liu Chengrui, Sad, 2016. Performance and Photograph, 120*80cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

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