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: Revolution

  • 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…