Magnetic Resonance Imaging - Everybody Loves
Zheng Guogu
郑国谷
Production date
2014-2015
Object Detail
Media
oil on canvas
Measurements
198 x 280 cm
Notes
The Magnetic Resonance Imaging series, including Magnetic Resonance Imaging – Everybody Loves and Magnetic Resonance Imaging – Club (both 2014), extends Zheng Guogu’s mash-up of throw-away texts from consumer culture with Buddhist notions of energy and connectedness. These blurred images convey an altered, hallucinatory psychological state, perhaps a reference to the heightened awareness achieved by chemical means, or perhaps merely attributable to the dizzying effects of the modern world. This series, and Zheng’s dazzling appropriations of Tibetan thangka paintings, evoke a world where the spiritual is as easily consumed, and as easily discarded, as the material: the artist calls it a ‘global game’ in which all humanity participates.
Accession number
2016.158