This is an accordion-fold archive centered on "Semantic Glitches." The artist collects absurd "memes" born from puns and misreadings in the digital realm, transforming them into a series of raw, visceral, and darkly humorous ink sketches. Within this non-linear narrative collage, the logic—or lack thereof—behind why "the pants committed suicide" is irrelevant; what matters is how this absurdist reasoning is solemnly documented through imagery. These monochromatic, graffiti-like images serve as slices of the internet’s subconscious, where dragons, beasts, and bizarre dialogues form a kind of symmetrical chaos on paper. By rejecting the integrity of traditional painting, the work embraces a fragmented reality akin to a "cerebral short-circuit," serving as a "dislocated dictionary" dedicated to our age of information overload.
Fu Baoyi (born 2001 in Zhuji, Zhejiang; based in Hangzhou) works across multiple media to deconstruct established modes of perception through humor and irony. His practice examines the alienation and reconstruction of traditional culture and ethical systems within contemporary contexts. Focusing on cultural symbols emerging from China’s social transformation—such as martial arts, folk traditions, and internet memes—as well as reimagined narratives from premodern zhiguai (accounts of the strange) literature in relation to modern history, Fu employs absurd visual narratives to reveal the tensions between collective and individual identity.
Influenced by internet subcultures and youth communities, his recent works adopt sharp, nonsensical metaphors to critique consumerism and the illusory nature of historical narratives. Using everyday imagery as a vehicle, Fu further interrogates the relationship between individual expression and lived reality.
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