Produced with obsessive regularity from 2009 to 2011, the works in Longing comprised the first comprehensive and focused interpretation of chi too’s art practice then to date. The exhibition was presented at Black Box MAP @ Publika and supported by Valentine Willie Fine Art.

The playful constellation of ridiculous and meticulously produced work may seem like humorous visual one-liners lampooning the pretensions of the art world and the figure of the angst-ridden artist. However, they are revealed as the characteristic double fakes of an individual deeply driven by his emotions and insecurities, laid bare through a form of ambiguous poetry. By providing a comic entrance into his practice, viewers can choose to laugh at the sheer bravado of an artist extrapolating the language of conceptualism for nihilist effect or delve head first into his various melancholies.