Nibbling-Up - Tomb Figures
Sun Furong
孙芙蓉
Production date
2008
Object Detail
Media
cloth, steel
Measurements
100 pieces, installed 180 x 550 x 250 cm
Notes
Recalling the serried rows of ancient terracotta warriors entombed in Xi’an, Sun Furong’s 100 ravaged Mao suits have been snipped, hacked and slashed by the artist’s dressmaking scissors, suggesting a story of female revenge. These drab garments represent a revolutionary, collectivist past in which all forms of individualism were suppressed; the empty suits symbolise an obsolete ideology. But the work also conveys the artist’s overwhelming rage as she enacts a kind of exorcism, a more violent form of her earlier practice of paper-cutting.
Accession number
2008.071