I saw this in person and it was stunning to say the least. I wrote about it here, on my neglected wordpress blog.
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu Old Persons Home 2007
There are a few genre’s of art that I especially love; hyperrealism, minimalism, installations, and neon come immediately to mind. So what happens when you combind hyperrealist latex recreations of world leaders, install them in electronic wheelchairs with no sense of direction and then place them in a blank room to wander around and bump into each other aimlessly? I die.
The only thing that would have made this better was to install some neon signs above and let me peek in like a peep show. That would have been scandelous.
This is installed at the latest location of the Saatchi in London.
