CUI YUXUAN 

Hauntology, Mourning, Land Melancholy

  1. Vestige of Hsinking, After the Illusion Fades 迷梦幻灭后
  2. Divided Spaces, Dissolved Orders
  3. Deconstruct the “Tools”
  4. Lost, Lost, Lost  失，失，失
  5. Wuchang五常, Wuchang无常
  6. I’ve Never Heard the Swan Song 我从未听过天鹅挽歌
  7. Deferred Echoes Inside the Bell 但余钟磬音
  8. Drawn in Captivity: Walking through H.J.D de Fremery’s sketches 囚中途绘

Space, Storytelling, Installation

  1. What you will  第十二夜
  2. Love Me Tender, Bite Me True 
  3. Trespass 飞（非）地烟花
  4. 溯流 Go Upstream
  5. Jiakong, Jiakong 
  6. -Borderline as Storyline- 

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©2026 Cui Yuxuan

2020-2021
Archival Inkjet Print, photographic film, video 4’51’’
During the coronavirus epidemic, the Chinese government and medical institutions showed a complicated state in the treatment technology of the disease and the public's response. Based on my various residency areas during the period of the epidemic, this project starts from the perspective of the text, old images and archival as the medium, structure of urban and rural public health to conduct a series of investigation and research, and to explore how the concept of "space" represented by western gradually expand into Chinese local society, how the medical community gradually replace the natural resource community, and how traditional folk order gradually collapse by the controlled life statistics.

At the same time, the emergence of the isolation power has brought a micro-network woven by institutions, customs, and ideologies in the post-epidemic era. Under the situation that space is constantly being cut and diferentiated, the discipline and control lingering on the human body gradually become clear.



                                    








            

            







 












      















                  






                                     

                                       
                      

       













       

       

       


“ When the first scalpel of Western medicine cuts into a Chinese body, it becomes a ‘ modern event. ' ”
Nianqun Yang: Remaking “Patients”, page 2, China Remin University Press, 2006. 


 

 

 












   







                             
       










   









                                 

                                     













     

     

     




   



“ Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. ”
According to Rodolphe Virchow, cited in Jing Shao: Speech and Action: The awkward situation of medical anthropology criticism. 
Tuo Li, Yangu Chen, editor in chief of Insight, series 13 , page 115, Hebei Education Publishing, 2004.