Acrobatics
Yang Shen
杨深
Production date
2012
Object Detail
Media
oil on canvas
Measurements
150 x 200 cm
Notes
Acrobatics (2012) presents an impossible scenario: two children perform acrobatic balancing tricks while their little dog balances a stack of different toys on his nose. They are performing this circus act in what appears to be a courtyard: tufts of grass grow between its pavers, and there are two buildings with blank blue curtains that seem to be painted with a design of marbled meat. In the foreground, bizarrely, the paving is littered by trilobites (extinct marine arthropods), almost as if they have just crawled there to die. The work suggests the impossible juxtapositions of a dream, and the myriad competing activities that take place all day long in any Chinese park.
Accession number
2018.033