At the age of 16, Chinese artist Wang Du worked under the Cultural Revolution regime. As a forced propagandist, he sought artistic and intellectual freedom and was arrested in 1989 for his resistance to the prevailing corruption. Wang Du moved to Paris and immersed himself in Western society with a critical eye. With his three-dimensional sculptures, he aims to make the viewer aware of manipulated reality and the dogmatism to which humans are subject.

With ‘Luxe Populaire’, a monumentally crumpled newspaper, Wang Du criticises the ease with which the media feeds the public numerous illusions. With the enlarged newspaper Le Monde, he offers his ironic view of the Western press, which is equally manipulative: Like a carelessly discarded piece of rubbish – with no substantive value.