Catalina Ouyang investigates themes of desire, subjugation, and dissidence through object-making, transdisciplinary contexts, and time-based works. Ouyang's artwork examines how a subject navigates physical and sociopolitical space: what histories and discourses are inscribed on the body, and how the body coexists with architecture and bureaucratic processes. In writing about their practice, Ouyang emphasizes the critical re-imaging of historical formation wherein monstrosity, animality, and toxicity serve as ciphers for the psycho-affective alienation of the minor subject.