Zhizi Wu’s (Jasminidose) works explore the characteristics of East Asian femininity under conservativeness. She pays attention to a variety of narrative themes such as mother-daughter relationships, intergenerational relationships, sexual repression, sexual presence, demisexuality, and lesbianism, Meanwhile, she researches an indirect and obscure narrative mode. Using mixed media, mainly oil painting, on a blank piece of cotton cloth as a starting point, Zhizi Wu records her memories, avoidance, and evil thoughts. Although she usually expresses accurate scene depictions in paintings, she strives to distort the plots, thus emphasizing a layer of barriers between characters and people, or between the self and the outside world. This “dissociative” narrative attempts to touch the core personality of some East Asian women and their collective trauma which has been kept silent, denied, and abandoned.

In addition to dissecting her own experiences, Wu perceives women's collective memories on the Internet. As Paul Rand said, "... if advertising is the folk language of capitalism,  the internet is a densely layered folktale going wild. It’s a feeding tube to nourish the hive” Wu often reads and feels the painful words written by anonymous women on the Internet, which grow as seeds in her heart. Wu draws inspiration from works of art about women: "Letter to a Child Never Born" by Oriana Fallaci, "Runaway" by Alice Munro, “All About My Mother” directed by Pedro Almodovar, and “The Hours” written by Michael Cunningham.

Zhizi Wu is not the artist's legal name; her surname comes from her mother.

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吴栀子的作品探索保守文化下的东亚女性特质，关注母女关系、代际关系、性压抑、性表现欲（sexual presence）、无性恋、女同性恋等多种叙述主题，并研究一种间接、朦胧的叙事模式。吴栀子使用以油画为主的混合媒介，以一张空白的棉布作为起点，精神分析式地记录下自己的记忆、思绪、回避与恶念。她的画面往往表达了准确的场景细节，却极力扭曲了故事情节，因此强调了一层角色与人的屏障，或者自我与外界之间的屏障。这种解离型叙事尝试触碰了部分东亚女性的人格内核，隐忍不言、被否认、被抛弃的集体创伤。

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除了对自己的经历进行剖析，吴栀子也在互联网上感知女性的群体记忆。正如保罗·兰德所说“……如果说广告是资本主义的民间语言，那么互联网就是层层递进、疯狂的民间故事。它是滋养蜂群的饲管。”吴栀子常常阅读和感受网络上的匿名女性撰写的文字，这些文字激发了她的创作。此外，吴栀子从关于女性的艺术作品中汲取灵感，奥里亚娜·法拉奇的小说《给一个未出生孩子的信》，爱丽丝·门罗的小说集《逃离》，佩德罗·阿莫多瓦所执导的《关于我母亲的一切》，迈克尔·坎宁安的小说《时时刻刻》都给她带来了很大影响。

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吴栀子并不是艺术家的真名，姓氏来自于她的母亲。