The Nightmare of Felice Beato, 2025

In 1860, during the Second Opium War launched by the British and French allied forces, photographer Felice Beato took the photograph Interior of the Angle of Taku North Fort Immediately After Its Capture by Storm. Beato rearranged the positions of the corpses to achieve a perfect composition of the battlefield. In this work, the artist reconstructs the war scene through staged settings but removes the bodies, leaving behind a ghostly landscape.