Mi-Lou series serves as a platform where issues related to city, prediction, and dream are discussed. It is a piece supported by a comprehensive framework, a project divided into three distinctive elements. The scenes took place sequentially in New York, Taipei, and Tokyo. Although I am often distracted by the minutia and seductions of daily […]

Debra Anderson: What does your show title mean, and how does it tie in with your work? Michael Mararian: The title is Phobia, Foibles, and Fiends, and it is a reexamination of my last show, Little Unfortunates. The works in this show all fall under one of the categories listed in the title. The subjects […]

Unfolding as a visual novel, After Nature depicts a future landscape of wilderness and ruins. It is a story of abandonment, regression, and rapture—an epic of humanity coming apart under the pressure of obscure forces and not-so-distant environmental disasters. This exhibition brings together an international and multigenerational group of contemporary artists, filmmakers, writers, and outsiders, […]

It was not until the 1990s that the world started noticing Chinese contemporary art. Within less than two decades, works from the ‘85 New Wave, Political Pop Art, and Cynical Realism periods drew attention across the globe and broke auction house records. Unlike the previous generation of artists whose market-friendly formula involves manipulating political symbols […]

I like to describe many of my recent projects as “science fiction ecologies,” suggesting that what is most important to me are the speculative potentials that circulate through an environment—the what-ifs and the parallel dimensions, real and potential traumas and erasures, reversals of scale and time course, and conflations of fictional and factual existence. My […]

The Forgotten series was created in the only preserved cemetery for Red Guards in China. This cemetery is located in a park in Chong-Qing. It is about 3,000 m2. There are 113 tombs of 500 Red Guards who died between 1967 and 1968 when a revolution broke out in Chong-Qing. They were members of the […]

I hate New York! From the day I stepped into the city, I’ve been feeling this way. This feeling has never left my mind, except for a few pleasant surprises. Good brownies or the dazzling lights of Broadway eased my loathness of New York. It’s as if I am repeatedly writing “I HATE NEW YORK” […]

History is composed of individuals and their activities, without which it degrades into abstract concepts, data, and rigid rules. History can only liven up and establish a connection with reality based on realistic individuals and their activities, which give it a realistic sense of life. Of course, the development of history is colorful with various […]

Hibiscus only exists in the Land of Hibiscus and the Land of Abundance. If you see an old ficus tree, you must have been in the Land of Abundance. The sound of a shepherd boy’s flute under the ficus tree seemed to linger around the old tree, leaves swaying in the breeze, glittering in the […]

I am interested in the relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary. I photograph, draw, or film tableaus made of common materials and frame them in a way which references vast scales. I want to create images that are familiar and unfamiliar, grand and absurd, serious and comedic. My last few photographic series have been […]