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

Category: ARO

  • Apple, Needle, and Disturbed This essay was published in Art Review Oxford (ISSUE 12, 2025). In early 2024, a one-minute video released by a WeChat account went viral in China. Although deceptively titled Wishing You Safe and Sound, the content displays how artist Liu Yaohua processed his β€˜cruel experiment’ in his 2022 piece Disturbed, during…