Guide Book 0.936 (GB)

Guide Book 0.936 (GB) was an attempt to document queer desire and melancholy as shaped by global experience, contemporary mobility and displacement, and the idea of longing and fantasy. It was made in a period when the artist and his friends, living in Shanghai at that time, were yearning to move to Europe. It includes all 378 photos he took from a 17-day trip revisiting London. The subjects range from random hot men on the street, to quiet acts of care, coded fashion choices and of course Grindr conversations.

Repeated images are intentionally left in and interwoven with texts that aren’t captions or commentary, but visual objects themselves—moments of queer attention and inner monologue, appearing deliberately out of sync with the photos, like glances remembered later, or thoughts that arrive before the image does.