{"id":166,"name":"Peng Yu","email":"","language_id":1,"permalink":"peng-yu","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"http://www.sunyuanpengyu.com/","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1974-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Yu","lastname":"Peng","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Peng Yu","date_of_death":null,"cached_name_asc":"Peng Yu","stream_count_app":36,"gender":"other","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/017/504/large/Screen_shot_2013-05-29_at_10.06.25.png?1369814713","poster_credits":null,"media_count":1,"items_count":2,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eChinese artist\u003cstrong\u003e Peng Yu \u003c/strong\u003e(b.1974,\u0026nbsp;Heilongjiang Province)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;is a performance and video artist. Her inspiration is life in the city of Beijing, where she lives and works. Recurring themes in her work are human relationships, the cycle of life and death and the big city life. She regularly works in collaboration with her partner \u003cstrong\u003eSun Yuan \u003c/strong\u003e(b.1972, Beijing). Together they are known for provocative and controversial works that explore and broaden the ethical limitations of art, regularly making use of materials originating from human corpses. Peng is part of a group of emerging artists who first received substantial institutional recognition through their participation in \u0026ldquo;All Under Heaven\u0026rdquo;, held at MuHKA in 2004. For this survey show of contemporary Chinese art, Peng (in collaboration with Sun) realized a tube-shaped sculptural object made up of ashes and glue \u0026ndash; the ashes, in fact, of no less than eight hundred dead compatriots, the bodies or remains of which were never claimed by any surviving relatives. Peng herself has referred to or described these works as \u0026ldquo;post-sensationalist\u0026rdquo; in nature. Her activities as a performance artist are similarly characterized by a strong radicalism, which she documents through photography and video installations.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeng Yu\u003c/strong\u003e doet performances en maakt video\u0026rsquo;s en installaties. Samen met haar artistieke partner Sun Yuan woont ze in Peking, en behoort ze tot de groep Chinese kunstenaars die voor krantenkoppen hebben gezorgd, en die sterke reacties hebben uitgelokt met hun spectaculaire en speculatieve, brutale beelden.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eZo maken ze bijvoorbeeld geregeld gebruik van materialen afkomstig van menselijke lijken. Ze hameren erop dat de resten van mensen \u003cem\u003egeen\u003c/em\u003e mensen zijn, en daarom gebruikt kunnen worden door kunstenaars om beelden te cre\u0026euml;ren die de kijker dwingen om de menselijke conditie in overweging te nemen \u0026ndash; en hem daarbovenop te shockeren en te confronteren met de rauwe \u0026#39;kracht\u0026#39; van de Chinese beschaving, een kracht die zich niet conformeert aan westerse morele beslommeringen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePeng catalogeerde deze werken zelf als \u0026lsquo;post-sensationalistisch\u0026rsquo;. Haar performance-activiteiten brengen een nog sterker geradicaliseerde inzet voor het voetlicht, die zij door middel van foto- en video-installaties documenteert.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"CN","place":"Heilongjiang Province","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}},{"country":"CN","place":"Beijing","category":{"en":"Lives in","nl":"Leeft in","fr":"Vit à"}}]}