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1/2 Series

1998

Zhang Huan 張洹

(Chinese, b. 1965)
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Culture
China, 20th century
Medium
chromogenic print
Measurements
Paper: 119.4 x 104.1 cm (47 x 41 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2012.100
Copyright
© Zhang Huan
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Location
Not on view
Print
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The artist used his own body for this “concept photo,” a performance done for the camera without an audience.

Description

This work was inspired by the market in Beijing where Zhang Huan ate breakfast every morning. “I could see rows and rows of ribs on sale at different stalls. When I saw the ribs, I saw myself. Half of a person is his body and the other half is his soul.” The human body is meat, but so much more.
Two similar images side by side of a man with a medium-light skin tone standing against a blue background. In both photos, he has an animal's rib cage draped over himself. In the image on the left, he is wearing one side of an animal's rib cage. In the image on the right, he is covered with characters written in black ink and is wearing two halves of an animal's rib cage.

1/2 Series

1998

Zhang Huan

(Chinese, b. 1965)
China, 20th century

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