Country
China
Premiere
World
Artist statement
I am an emerging multidisciplinary artist studying in high school currently, with a deep interest in literature, political science, social theory, and visual storytelling. My practice is driven by a desire to explore the boundaries of communication and the emotional textures of daily life—those subtle, often inexpressible tensions that dwell beneath the surface of the visible world.
Through illustration, I confront the silence of official, unified narratives and seek to amplify the fragmented, conflicting, and deeply personal voices within. I am particularly drawn to political satire and alternate interpretations, employing a playful yet probing visual language to question power and collective memory.
As an artist, a self-archivist, and an enthusiastic fan creator, I believe every individual has the right to write their own history. My work attempts to weave these threads together—to resist nihilism by doing something, anything, to respond to it. I aim not only to create, but also to curate and contextualize voices that deserve to be seen and heard.
Curated in the International Art Exhibit at 17th New Media Film Festival®
1. Three people become mice.
Metaphor: using the proverb “three people make a tiger”. When information flows between individuals, the truth is like a photocopy that is constantly copied, the color fades, the outline is blurred, and the face is completely different. The shocking facts at the beginning were cut, misunderstood, and even tampered with intentionally or unintentionally after being paraphrated – the tiger eventually becomes a mouse. We live in a world full of information, but we often only receive the palest and thinnest versions.
This illustration depicts the fantasy process of the tiger gradually shrinking into a mouse. Through ironic brushstrokes, it shows that the facts are misunderstood, cut and tampered with after layers of translation processing, which further reflects the distortion in the process of information transmission.
2. The truth like an onion
People try to uncover the truth again and again, but they always face the information layer that supports each other, conflicts with each other or confuses each other. Each layer is like a different species skin that makes people get lost in the chaotic torrent of information. The truth became vague and distant, like a never-ending onion peeling game. It is never possible to piece together the truth, and everyone can only see different levels.
This illustration depicts the scene of people’s search for the truth, which is endless like an onion peeling game, showing that the truth is blurred in different perspectives and levels.
3. The limb vending cabinet of truth
The limbs of the truth are displayed on the shelf. Most of them are not interested, because the eyes record the truth, the bones protect the truth, the ears listen to the real voice, the stomach digest the truth, the brain distinguishes falsehood, distinguish lies… So no one buys these. Truth has become a consumer product, but what people pursue is not to understand its organs, but to manipulate it. Although the lies were revealed and the whitewashed real mouth had been sold out, people still persistently pressed the button, and the gold coins that were spit out rolled down after throwing them in.
This illustration depicts the truth becoming a consumer good on the shelf, expressing people’s enthusiasm for lies and whitewashing the truth in an absurd form, trying to inspire the audience to think about the relationship between truth and falsehood.