Yuyang Zhang’s paintings reflect his lived experience as a chronically online queer Chinese artist through the lens of pop culture ephemera. Built upon daydreams and nightmares, his work stages melodramatic scenarios by weaving together imagery, iconography, text, and personal items. Each piece appropriates and reconfigures familiar pop culture artifacts, transforming them into queer-coded camp. By leaning into excessive gestures and layered absurdity, masking vulnerability in vibrance, Zhang’s work disarms the viewers while questioning the power and agency that govern queer diaspora’s existence.

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