Liu Jin 刘瑾
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Liu Jin is a Chinese conceptual artist and photographer.
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[edit] Date & Place of Birth
Liu Jin was born in 1971 in Lian Yungang, Jiangsu Province.
[edit] Education & Development
[edit] Art
Most of the work touches, in some way or another, on human cruelty, especially when interfacing with youth culture from the 1970s and onward. There are strangely touching naturalistic studies of young men and women in their own environments, doctored official documents, staged exercises in cross-dressing, graphic nude bondage photographs, and, most compelling of all, restaged photographs of our culture's most classic and brutal photojournalistic moments, particularly from the Vietnam "conflict." The book closes out with the Liu Jin's most recent work, haunting photographs of partially clothed, and sometimes bleeding, "angels" in degraded landscape settings, and performance pieces in which the artist challenges consumer culture in sometimes humiliating, sometimes hilarious settings. [1]
Liu Jin also photographs himself naked, wearing a pair of wings, and hanging from buildings and trees. He sells images of himself sitting naked, in a large soy sauce vat, with a live, bound, pig. His body is the medium, he insists.
On Liu Jin’s web page, Zhang Zhaohui writes: “His body is only the material, medium, carrier, space of his art experiments. He uses his body to find the pleasant sensation and enjoy the happiness of life. So his art shows us the active and upward life attitude.” [2]
[edit] Gallery Affiliation(s)
Liu Jin is represented by the Yu Gallery and F2 Gallery in Beijing.
