After love, the courage to get close again: Beryl Wu’s Loud Love, Loud Sex
At Taipei’s PATROL until November5, Beryl Wu and tiantiantian explore intimacy through a RISO zine, three interviews and her first short comic. The October31 airbrush event has ended.
Experience can make people clearer about what they want, but less willing to take another risk. Illustrator Beryl Wu and creative studio tiantiantian turn that tension into Loud Love, Loud Sex, a zine and an exhibition at Taipei art bookshop PATROL from October 30 to November 5, 2026. Their first joint publication connects pictures, interviews and opportunities for visitors to respond.
Love and sex are its starting points, while its underlying question is how experience changes intimacy. Wu draws on her own life and conversations with friends to describe desire alongside emotional defences. These are personal narratives by the artist and interviewees. Readers can compare them with their own lives without treating them as rules that every relationship should follow.
Three conversations about desire and boundaries
The first half of the zine starts with one-night stands and records conversations with three people of different ages, genders and sexual orientations. Their accounts move through emotion, desire and boundaries. Similar kinds of encounters can involve very different expectations, from testing the distance between two people to making sense of feelings left by an earlier relationship. Placing the stories together leaves room for those differences.
The second half is Wu’s first attempt at a short comic. Where the interviews bring other voices into the book, the comic turns towards her own internal monologue. Both forms consider how someone who has loved and been hurt might approach desire again. Vivid colour, female imagery and dark humour continue her interest in the body, sexuality and everyday connections.
A creator draws in an open sketchbook at a desk beside a laptop and art materials.
RISO dots, soft colour and a physical reading experience
The publication is RISO printed, bringing together coloured-pencil marks and airbrushed gradients. Different chapters have distinct visual textures, while dots and overlapping colours leave small variations between copies. Looking at where colours meet, or where a drawn line sits beside a soft patch of colour, makes the material form part of the reading experience.
The supplied book photographs show a blue cover with yellow spiral binding. An open spread pairs an illustration with English interview text. That arrangement places image and conversation beside each other without imposing a single verdict on the interviewees’ experiences. Lettering in the publication also echoes sheets of airbrushed words visible in the supplied work-process photographs.
A yellow spiral joins a spread with a colour illustration on the left and English interview text on the right.
From the page into a bookshop
The exhibition includes questions and a message board, inviting visitors to move from reading other people’s stories to considering their own responses. The zine and related merchandise are also presented, alongside a skirt collaboration with womenswear label little nook that carries the project into clothing. Unverified prices, sizing and stock are omitted here; a publicity photograph does not guarantee that an item remains available at the venue.
PATROL is at No. 30, Lane 155, Nanjing West Road, Datong District, Taipei. The exhibition runs until November 5. Wu’s one-day airbrush event took place on October 31 and has ended; the exhibition’s continuing run does not mean that she is present every day. Current hours and closure arrangements still require confirmation against the organiser’s latest announcement. Admission, reservations and age conditions have not been verified for this article, so check tiantiantian and the venue before travelling.
Questions and answers
How are the exhibition and zine connected?
The exhibition starts with Wu and tiantiantian’s first joint publication, extending its ideas through pictures, merchandise, questions and a message board.
What do the interviews discuss?
Three people with different backgrounds begin with one-night stands and discuss emotion, desire and boundaries. Their experiences are personal accounts, not a representative survey.
Can I still attend the October 31 airbrush event?
That was a one-day event and has ended. The exhibition continues until November 5, with current hours and closures to be checked against the organiser’s latest information.
