For over a decade, Tao Hui (b. 1987 in Yunyang, China. Lives and works in Beijing) has created a series of highly affecting artworks, drawing extensively on personal memory, visual experience, and popular cultural imagery, and is recognised internationally for films and video installations that combine touching narratives with poetic images. Closely studying and representing movements that transcend geographical, cultural and identity boundaries, Tao Hui in recent years began tackling subjects such as the confrontational relationship between society and the individual, as well as the disavowed reality of marginalized communities. His institutional solo exhibitions include: Searing Pain, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe (2022); Not at all, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an (2017); New Directions: Tao Hui, UCCA, Beijing (2015), as well as the group exhibitions and projects: The pieces that I am, UCCA Edge, Shanghai (2022); LOVELOVELOVE, Biennale of Moving Images, UCCA, Beijing (2022); ON | OFF 2021: Carousel of Progress, He Art Museum, Shunde (2022); An Opera for Animals, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2019); How Little You Know About Me, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2018); Simultaneous Eidos, Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2017); Why Not Ask Again? Arguments, Counterarguments and Stories, 11th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (2017); Bentu Chinese artists in a time of turbulence and transformation, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2016); The Image expression in the Art Practice of the New Generation, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an (2016).