Zhizi Wu’s (Jasminidose) works explore the characteristics of East Asian femininity. 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.

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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吴栀子并不是艺术家的真名，姓氏来自于她的母亲。