The generation of Chinese artists who have emerged since 1989 have galvanized the interest of collectors and curators worldwide. “It’s as if they have taken Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Margritte, and Warhol and swallowed them whole,” wrote The Sunday Times (London). Contemporary artists like Gao seek to explore the threads of everyday life and transcend parochial politics and their traditional culture to create work that reflects the new reality around them. “Story is the way we transform ourselves and how history is left to tell the story. When we tell our story, we temporarily leave our daily life. It is through this work that I have dissociated myself from my daily life as well as my history. As a result, I can examine the past and explore the relationship between past and present, Eros and Death, being and nothing, ” says Gao.