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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

Category: MIC

  • Published in Made in China Journal (February 2026) […] If the β€˜farms’ once promised a digital utopia β€” an imagined community freed from state control β€” they now embody a more unsettling truth about contemporary populism: that participation can itself become a form of capture. Jonas Staal, Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective, 2018. Installation view at…

  • From Ge Yu Lu to Ge Yulu Published in Made in China Journal (Global China Lab/Open Access, May 2025) It presents a case study of the widely known β€” and at times controversial β€” artist Ge Yulu and his interventionist practice. Through an account of Ge’s life and career, including his early years as a…