Select solo exhibitions include Arario Gallery, Shanghai (2019) Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (2019, 2011) Galerie Perrotin, Paris (2013) Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012) Arario Gallery, Seoul (2011) Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (2009) Osage, Hong Kong (2009) and F2 Gallery, Beijing (2005). Sun Yuan and Peng Yu have shown their work widely across Asia, Europe, North America, and the U.K.
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu are the recipients of the 2001 Contemporary Chinese Art Award and the 2010 Credit Suisse Today Award. Mechanical arms frantically shove the liquid back in place once the machine's sensors detect the liquid has strayed too far, leaving red stains and splatters. Viewed from behind clear acrylic walls, it was programmed to contain the liquid to a certain area of the room. The installation showed a stainless-steel robot in a white room, wiping away at a pool of blood-red liquid. Can't Help Myself (2016)Ĭommissioned by the Guggenheim Museum, Can't Help Myself (2016) sought to evoke the mechanical relationships between people and state, replicating the conditions of surveillance and warfare around border control. Civilization Pillar (2001-2019)Ĭivilization Pillar (2001-2019), a tall yellow pillar made from human fat, paraffin wax, and petroleum jelly, serves as representation of human excess, referring to the unused food energy stored in the body, extracted through cosmetic procedures. Just as horrifying and realistic, Angel (2008), a fibreglass sculpture of an angel with grotesque flesh-covered wings, sees the elderly creature splattered on the ground, with white hair and white tunic, wrinkles and moles visibly apparent. Old Persons Home (2007), a parody of the U.N., showed 13 life-size sculptures of elderly world leaders on dynamoelectric wheelchairs, senile and toothless, set to randomly roll around the exhibition space at a slow pace, colliding into one another. The video remained in the exhibition, frozen on the video's title card to avoid further criticism. A petition circulated accusing the museum of animal torture.
The work was pulled from the exhibition, alongside two others, after the New York Times published a preview that caught the attention of animal-rights activists. Yuan and Yu's video installation Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other (2003) shown as part of the 2017 group exhibition Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World at the Guggenheim Museum generated much controversy for showing fighting dogs strapped to treadmills trying to attack one another. Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's large-scale installations tend to generate controversy for using human and animal material to contest political activity and moral boundaries.
The pair has been working collaboratively in Beijing since the late 1990s and got married in 2000. Born in Beijing and Heilongjiang, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu studied Oil Painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 19.
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