This sculpture portrays Yue Minjun's own image in a state of hysterical laughter. These laughing figures are the trademark of the artist. This sculpture was part of the 2009-2011 Vancouver Biennale, which is a biennial exhibiton of international contemporary art in pubilc spaces. A-maze-ing Laughter was donated to the City by Chip and Shannon Wilson through the Wilson5 Foundation on August 11, 2012.

"My work is both fantasy and fiction. It is a description of the real world through my eyes, reinventing oneself through non-reality". -Yue Minjun (translated from Chinese).