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Binding the Lost Souls: Memory Loss, 1993
Chromogenic print
b. 1962
Zheng Lianjie was born in 1962. He first gained international attention in 1993 for his performance “Binding the Lost Soul: Huge Explosion.” He and a motley group of performers, including students, villagers, and other artists, salvaged bricks from a crumbling portion of the Great Wall and tied red ribbons around them. The process, and the resultant hill of beribboned bricks, was both a celebration of the Great Wall and an elegy to it. In recent years Zheng Lianjie has continued to explore historical memory, human endurance, and personal identity through his physically intense and visually stunning performances. He also continues to practice ink painting, to which he adds his own element of dramatic energy.
b. 1974
Fay Ku is one of the brilliant exponents of the younger generation of Chinese American artists whose accomplished draftsmanship and unusual vision is directed at examining the tension between delicate, feminine subject matter and its undercurrent of violence and sexual exploitation. Her charming renderings of children, young girls, and animals carry a dangerous and disturbing charge.
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“He lived with as many as six cats at a time: the ‘people,’ he claimed, to whom he felt closest.”
Edward Gorey is my hero.
