Danlu is a multi-disciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance, drawing, and game. Their work explores how structures — emotional, physical, social — can be unraveled, reimagined, or broken open to create space for new possibilities.

 

At the heart of Danlu’s practice is the body: as a mark-maker, a performer, a player. Physicality becomes both medium and message, a way to navigate the tension between control and chaos. Whether using their body to create large-scale floor paintings or inviting others into game-based rituals, Danlu’s work is an ongoing exploration of how structure can hold, restrict, or be liberated from within.

 

They design playful frameworks — swings at the studio entrance, ceramic instruments, participatory games like "123木头人" — as portals into emotional depth. These ludic structures aren’t escapes from reality, but blueprints for engaging it differently: with mischief, joy, and vulnerability. Danlu crafts conditions where people can feel something real through unexpected means: joy through sorrow, safety through chaos, and beauty through play.

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Much of their work navigates the outside edges of order — automatic drawings, broken ceramics, surreal creatures drawn from randomness — each finding new logic in what lies out of shape, out of order, or out of bounds. These outliers are not mistakes but messengers of possibility.