Where can I see this artwork?: Book cover of Did you meet any malagas?: A homosexual history of Australia’s tropical capital by Dino Hodge Significance to Queer Art History New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.ĭate & Location: 1993, Larrakia Territory, Darwin, Australia Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism. His pseudonym, which means ‘Siberian Butterfly,’ was chosen so that the butterfly surviving in a harsh environment could signify “the difficulty of living a gay life in a sexually conservative society (Bao, 158).”Īs Bao explores in the article cited below, Xiyadie’s work also blurs categories of ‘craft’ and ‘art,’ which in itself might be read as a queer defiance of categories. His artwork often explores the lives of queer people who are living in rural China specifically.
He was born in Heyang County, Shaanxi Province and is now living in Beijing. Xiyadie (pseudonym) is the first known queer artist to carry on the traditional practice of papercutting in China, which has its roots in the Eastern Han Dynasty (Bao, 157 and Nome Gallery). Media: Papercut, Water-Based Dye, and Chinese Pigments using Xuan Paper
