YUTONG HUO
Taco Yutong Huo
Artist. Creator.

Statement
My paintings trace the afterlife of sovereignty—a realm where once-centralized power dissolves into unstable fragments. Figures appear not as representations but as perceptual events: the tiger, for instance, is less an animal than a phenomenon, formed in the overlap of seeing and being seen.
I build surfaces through turbulence—layered gestures, oscillations, and collapses that make forms both emerge and disintegrate. Here, architecture and body no longer stand apart; ruins seep into flesh, stripes blur into stone. The canvas becomes a site where sovereignty unmoors itself, drifting between presence and erasure.
What interests me is not the fall of power, but its mutation into something spectral and unreliable. In this post-Leviathan condition, identity itself becomes unstable, flickering like a wave: sometimes forceful, sometimes dissolving, never fixed.
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