When Pigs Can Climb Trees
He Yunchang
何云昌
Production date
2009
Object Detail
Media
bronze
Measurements
181 x 111 x 86 cm
Notes
When Pigs Can Climb Trees (2009) is a bronze sculpture almost two metres in height. Tiny pigs cavort over the bare branches of a bronze tree, in a visual representation of the impossible. Like much of He Yunchang’s performance art, in which he undertakes acts that are ultimately pointless (cutting a river with a knife, circumnavigating Britain carrying a rock, dialling numbers on an unconnected telephone) this work, too, suggests that life is essentially absurd.
Accession number
2014.054