Born on the Liaohe Plain in Northeast China, Weiyu Dou (竇唯毓) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and curator of architectural heritage. Her practice engages with historical sites and “ruins” across Mainland China, offering a poetic attentiveness that hovers between care and intervention. Investigating the latent potential of local materials—aged timber, stone, ramie—reconfiguring them between rupture and continuity.

In her practice, Dou examines the disharmonies inherent in transregional romantic relationships, as well as the privileges inscribed on gendered and racialized bodies. Through her travels and fieldwork, she personally selects the energy of natural materials and reconfigures and links these forces in a state of uncertainty, while also leveraging the power of local materials to reveal the inequalities embedded in intimate relationships under the conditions of economic globalization.