Sun Xun

Newspaper Paintings,2015–2018. Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2018. Ink and colour on newspaper.

Sun Xun (born 1980) is one of China’s most exciting young artists, best known for his animations made up of thousands of ink paintings, charcoal drawings and woodcuts. Containing very little dialogue, these hand-made films use combinations of image, sound and text to raise questions about what we perceive as truth and explore the slippery dynamics of memory, history, culture and politics.

+ i think i should look into more contemporary chinese artists and explore the differences and significance in modern art of my own origin

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