The Chinese artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu participate in the Venice Art Biennale this year with two kinetic artworks. Now, we’ve just realized that we filmed an artwork of them before, and it’s funny that this happened (almost) exactly 10 years ago in June 2009 at Saatchi Gallery in London. The piece is called Old Persons Home, but the association of senile dictators in a nursing home is, of course, purely coincidental.
“Sun Yuan and Peng Yu are two of China’s most controversial artists, renown for working with extreme materials such as human fat tissue, live animals, and baby cadavers to deal with issues of perception, death, and the human condition. In Old Person’s Home Sun & Peng present a shocking scene of an even more grotesque kind. Hilariously wicked, their satirical models of decrepit OAPS look suspiciously familiar to world leaders, long crippled and impotent, left to battle it out in true geriatric style. Placed in electric wheelchairs, the withered, toothless, senile, and drooling, are set on a collision course for harmless ‘skirmish’ as they roll about the gallery at snail’s pace, crashing into each other at random in a grizzly parody of the U.N.dead.” (info text, Saatchi Gallery).
Sun Yuan & Peng Yu: Old Persons Home / Saatchi Gallery London. June 25, 2009.
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