Hou Dehua was born in 1989 in Shenyan, Liaoning Province. He graduated from the Sculpture Department, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts with a BA degree in 2013. In 2018, he earned this Master degree from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.

His recent works are rooted in his personal life experiences, exploring the perception of reality and the nature of existence. As a person with Visual Snow Syndrome, his art is deeply influenced by this condition, reflecting his unique perception of both the visual and mental worlds.

For patients with Visual Snow, the world appears covered in a dense array of “noise,” resembling the static of a television screen with no signal. This condition is relatively common but lacks effective treatment methods. It is believed to originate in the brain rather than the eyes, and is often linked to unexplained psychological trauma. Visual Snow has become a path into the mental world through visual representation, where the “noise” plays a significant role in shaping both form and technical expression.

In his works, overlapping gray and white bodies present the decay of the physical form (Container, 2024). These models, lacking thickness, reveal their internal structure as the point of observation shifts, causing the boundaries of virtual space to disappear (Roaming, 2024). Terms like “wearing through the model” and “internal observation points,” foundational in the 3D world, gradually dissolve the solidity of materiality. The “body” reconstructs order in a purposeless, indistinct state.