The Louis Vuitton-approved Chinese artist, whose work evokes Jeff Koons playfulness, is also known for her paintings that offers subversive Kenergy.
Much of Sun’s work evokes her memories of growing up in Wenzhou, a manufacturing hub that produced many self-made millionaires in the 1990s.
“He is not the man running around mad without a head, but he is the idle head staring out into oblivion. Ken is a still life, speechless, objectified, and impotent,” added Borysevicz.The Taobao-purchased, mass-produced plastic animals are first photographed in her studio and then painstakingly turned into paintings that take over a month each to produce.
As for the use of photorealistic details and deliberately loud colors, Sun said they were influenced by French philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s concept of hyper-reality, which “foretells over and over again a world that has become obsessed with beautiful illusions.” “She feeds us the plasticine world of commodity and prestige that defines our post-capital global aspirations,” observed Borysevicz. “We relish in the simple delights of superficiality.”
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