Owa Mesa,Born in Northwest China, based in Berlin.
Practice spans performance, video, writing, and activism.
Raised in a family environment where sex work and mining intersected, and growing up in the multi-ethnic cultural crossroads of Northwest China.
After leaving ta hometown at young to tad sexual minority identity, Ta gradually settled into the way of being that felt most natural to her.she chose to exist with a fluid gender expression—Ladyboy (transgender woman)—as she grew up. She says this is a response to the attitude behind the question she was asked since childhood: “Which do you love more, your mom or your dad?”
(Zen meditation) forms a crucial foundation of her practice. In daily life, many spontaneous actions do not stem from preconceived notions but from responses in the moment—those that occur before thought, generated jointly by the body, the environment, and the interplay of causes and conditions.
( )'s Love focused on taking a shit in Colored Darkness.
