Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature

Author: Yuxin Zhao

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Yuxin Zhao is a writer from Hangzhou, China and currently based in the UK. She writes experimental fiction and poetry on migration and/or immigration, family history, and queer desire. Three Forms of Exhaustion, a chapbook, was published as part of the DanceNotes chaplet series. Yuxin’s debut novel, The Moons: Fire Rooster to Earth Dog, was published by Calamari Archive in March 2024.
  • On Lucian Freud and the Violence in Looking

    On Lucian Freud and the Violence in Looking

    A meditation on Lucian Freud’s portraits, mortality, and the violence of looking, from familial intimacy to the abyss of horror. “To paint in the way Freud does, always from life, from infamously long sessions with his models, to desire that form of truth he so desires from his practice, is simultaneously to mimic death and…