Katinka Huang (b.1998) moved to England from China to attend an all girls boarding school whose Western ideology about gender and propriety conflicted with the Eastern ideology of femininity that she was brought up with.

The artist's upbringing at a British boarding school dominated by girls ignited her interest in examining the female psyche. In response to the artist's state of confusion and alienation, she created alter egos as the means of dissociation, which have now become the mould in which she creates.

Huang re-imagines these alter egos into stories of absurdity, she transforms a tempestuous personal diary into tales full of fantastical characters, depicting people and places as monstrous or saccharine creatures, as antagonists and protagonists. The cast of self-referential characters functions as recurring motifs which unabashedly reveals a mutilated female psyche.