BOLOHO
Established 2019, Guangzhou, China
Live and work in Guangzhou
 

Guangzhou-based art collective BOLOHO was established in 2019 by Bubu (Liu Jiawen) and Cat (Huang Wanshan), and later expanded to include permanent members Zhu Jianlin, Li Zhiyong, Fong Waiking and He Cong, along with an ever-changing number of collaborators. Their collective drawings, created in the highly accessible medium of colour gel pen on paper, include elaborate pastiches of history and culture, while their animations and sitcoms abound in rapid-fire comedy exploring family and workplace dynamics.

BOLOHO’s new body of work is based on their research into the state rubber farms of southern China, which channelled the expertise of Overseas Chinese returning from South-East Asia during the 1950s. Consisting of an intricate, four-panel collective drawing and a comedic video installation, Lunar Factory 2024 attempts to fill gaps in intergenerational knowledge from a period of rapid change.