Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO) is an art group founded by artists Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua, and curator and critic Leng Lin in 2005. PSFO concern themselves with the world and focus on the construction of the mental world. They think, talk, travel around and have fun, etc., trying to transform the political, cultural, economic life and everyday life into pure forms by their boundary-blurring practice. In 2005 PSFO had their first exhibition Only One Wall at Beijing Commune, and in the very next year, it travelled to Art Space, Sydney. In 2007, PSFO was taken by the media project “Art World: Polit-Sheer-Form, the Exhibition on Paper” run by the Art World magazine to the 12th Kassel Documenta. PSFO carry on their discussions in various places they’ve spent their time together, such as factories, farms, schools, famous sites of China’s civil war, places of interest, artist studios, art galleries, museums, sports sites, railway stations, docks, airports, hotels, restaurants, tea houses, bathhouses, recreation centers, departments stores and temporary stalls.
