'In the landscape of Chinese contemporary art, Wu Shanzhuan is the most difficult one to decode. He defines himself as criminal, intermediary, tourist and labor, so the works he has created are not the granted artworks but rather "Wu's Things". From the large number of "Wu's Things" made in the early 1990s, we see a desire for full opening and "transcending the boundaries" and his obsession with mathematics and logic which brings a strange sense of truth to his works. For us, a species dictated by a variety of faiths and customs, this is an "unadulterated" truth. Wu never tires of quoting from Sarte: "People are a bundle of useless passion". The use for his useless passion is to find "useless truth". For more than 20 years, Wu Shanzhuan has used pseudo-words, thing's right(s), parthenogenesis, secondhand water, tourist information, perfect bracket, and the bird prior to peace, all of which "useless truths", to weave his personal ideology. This ideology constitutes a profound critique to the system of concepts and experiences that we are accustomed to.[...]
Since his encounter with Inga Svala Thorsdottir in 1990, Wu's sophistication has taken a progressive turn. Inga has since become Wu's Muse and most potently critical collaborator. [...] Wu and Inga are not creators of visual spectacles, but rather overthrowers and discovers of truths and propositions, as well as counterfeiters of ideology and interpreters of everyday ideology.' — extracted from p.7
Translated
Wu shan zhuan tuo si duo di er gong zuo bao gao | (Wu Shanzhuan and Inga Svala Thorsdottir's Work Report)
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Chinese - Simplified, 
English
diaspora,  conceptualism,  drawing,  collage,  painting,  photography,  mixed media,  installation,  performance art
2010
338
9787550300026
1
artist monograph
An Anarchist Structure — Wu Shanzhuan & Inga Svala Thorsdottir's Thing's Right(s) etc. - GAO Shiming, 高士明
Pay Attention to Wu, and Inga - CHANG Tsongzung Johnson, 張頌仁
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