Virus Samples: Black Friday 病毒样品: 黑色星期五

Creator(s)

Shuang-Gui YE 叶双贵

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Date

12-10-1993

Format

Photograph

Exhibition Event Title

Consuming Virus

Date of Exhibition Event

December 10th, 1993

Location of Exhibition Event

Hanmo Gallery, Beijing, China

Materials

Clay

Dimensions

28 x 32 x 30 cm

Description

"Black Friday" is a sample of project "Consuming Virus". It is glazed with metallic paints. Compared to "Jerusalem Families"(https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhou/443/), another part of the project, the appearance of this piece is more fierce and aggressive, it is more like a weapon, in which the two salient pipe on the face could be interpreted as a muzzle. The image may be inspired by the sculpture, "Sphinx" from Egypt. However, its posture may inspired by "Plutus Cat", a Chinese mascot of wealth (Zhuocheng Jiang '26)