"I liked the idea of starting with a really delicate pencil drawing because it reveals a lot," says Wei Wei, reflecting on the self-portrait, which depicts the artist with a former lover. "It feels like a really vulnerable thing; there's no room for error when drawing with pencil."
In 'I bit him in places where his skin was exposed, so that his mother would know that he had a lover' (2017), two human tongues are swapped out for serpent organs, lace-like and cast in bright red, with a forked end that wriggles far beyond the lips.
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