Frank WANG Yefeng: The Levitating Perils #2

Frank WANG Yefeng’s The Levitating Perils #2 is a series of five animations that continues the artist’s explorations of identity and cultural displacement. The work features an uncanny, yet playful floating red dragon based on historical illustrations of the “Yellow Peril,” a label given to anti-Asian bias that dates back to the birth of European colonialism. The illustrations appeared in newspapers and political cartoons and featured monstrous depictions of Asian figures invading the West. The dragon specifically references the illustration The Ogre of the Orient (1904–05), shown in the back…