Failed Romances explores intimacy, identity, the body, and desire through the artist's personal experiences of love and loss. Rather than focusing on the end of relationships, the exhibition asks how individuals lose themselves within intimacy and how artistic practice can become a means of reexamining love, gender, and selfhood. Expanding on the multi-figure narrative developed in the 2024 exhibition Variation, the works draw from Katsushika Hokusai's “Manga”(漫畫), Edo-period “shunga”(春畫), Kitagawa Utamaro's concept of “manazashi” (the expressive gaze), and Japanese literature. Interwoven bodies, manga-style onomatopoeia, and recurring symbols such as "Auspicious" (吉) and "Love" (愛) place blessing, absurdity, and dark humor side by side, reflecting the contradictions of contemporary intimacy. The exhibition also continues the artist's investigation of the cultural discourse surrounding the term “Tai-Niu” (台女). By juxtaposing contemporary internet stereotypes of Taiwanese women with representations of women in Edo-period “shunga”(春畫), the works examine how women are viewed, labeled, and socially constructed while reclaiming their agency through acts of looking and representation. Failed Romances ultimately presents an exploration of intimacy, gender identity, and the politics of looking.