Old Persons Home 2007 Video #1, by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu

1st Recording

Recorded at Saatchi Gallery London, August 2009

This is the work of Sun Yuan and Peng Yu

Old Persons Home 2007

13 life size sculptures and 13 dynamoelectic wheel chairs

Sun Yuan and Peng Yu are two of China's most controversial artists, renowned for working with extreme materials such as human fat tissue, live animals, and baby cadavers to deal with the issues of perception, death, and the human condition.

In Old Person's Home, Sun & Peng present a shocking scene of an even more grotesque kind. Hilariously wicked, their satirical models of decrepit OAPS looks suspiciously familiar to world leaders, long crippled and impotent, left to battle it out in true geriatric style. Placed in electric wheelchairs, the withered, toothless, senile, and drooling, are set on a collision course for international conflict as they roll about the gallery at snails pace, crashing into each other at random in a grizzly parody of the U.N.dead.

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