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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

Category: Historical Pain

  • No Pain, No Exit

    Endurance and the Limits of Critique This essay was published in Critical Asian Studies (Commentary Board, 2026) […] This dynamic is not unique to China, but is sharpened by a historical narrative that casts suffering as necessary, even redemptive. The past functions as a moral benchmark: against famine and upheaval, the present appears as relief.…