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: 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…