Telenovela Series: Woman, Man, Eat

Gallery Illustration - Series

2026

Qiurui Du, Shanghai
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Illustrator: Qiurui Du

Telenovelas transforms contemporary Chinese urban life into hyper-saturated melodrama. These pop-art paintings stage everyday moments—shopping, dating, social, work—as exaggerated soap opera scenes. Bold colour and theatrical emotions capture how modern city dwellers perform identity through consumption and social media. Each canvas freezes manufactured emotion, revealing the absurd poetry beneath the big city's glossy surfaces where desires become drama and anxiety turns operatic.