Book Launch: Becoming Everyone, Everywhere

Join us for the book launch of ‘Becoming Everyone, Everywhere’ by Yasmine Anlan Huangn, in conversation with Wong Ka Ying.

Don’t begin another sentence with “I”, that’s what an English novice would do. Each time I open my mouth in the language, I tell myself this quietly. Still, I drift through endless I —I think, I suppose, I assume. Together, they multiply into a crowd of small, uncertain selves, where Siming rises from the ashes.

 —— Yasmine Anlan Huang

Wholeheartedly adventurous, Becoming Everyone Everywhere follows Siming—Yasmine transliterated back into Mandarin—across shifting time and geographies of girlhood, performance, and desire. Composed of inter-referential short stories, snapshots, and memos, the book folds back on itself, each fragment refracting another. Through repeated translations of text and life, the boundaries between agency and surrender begin to blur. What lies after?

Becoming Everyone, Everywhere is a collection of short stories, notes, and snapshots drawn from Yasmine Anlan Huang’s travels and processes of relocation since 2019. Extending an autobiographical narrative and a recurring protagonist from her previous publications and films, the book shifts toward autofiction, reframing lived experience through a character who allows the author to rehearse lives she cannot yet inhabit. Siming, a transliteration of “Yasmine” back into Chinese, appears across four stories as an idol, an idol aspirant, a fledgling part-time girlfriend, and a defeated novelist in an unexpected chance encounter. Edging between danger and security, Siming approaches self-actualization as identity is performed, translated, and continually revised in fantasies. 

Yasmine Anlan Huang is an artist and writer. Her work has been presented internationally, including in the Whitney Biennial 2024, Power Station of Art, HART Haus, Ota Fine Arts and Wschód Warsaw, with solo exhibitions at Magician Space, Nicoletti Contemporary, and Floating Projects. Huang was selected as Culture Magazine's 2025 Young Artist List of the Year.

Size: 180 × 105 mm

Papers: Antalis Keaykolour Old Rose, Munken Print White 18, Munken Polar Rough, Arctic Volume White

Designer

Wenxi Liao

Editor

Jiaoyang Li, Wenxi Liao

Translators

Yvonne Lui, Lily Sun, Sixing Xu

Proofreaders

Madeleine Swart, Yasmine Anlan Huang

Printing coordinator

Jolie Zhilei Zhou

Published by

Accent Edition, an imprint of Accent Sisters

With special thanks to

Pan Baohui and Qu Kejie

Longlati Foundation

Freelands Foundation Artists' Bursaries