Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
Title
Preview

Date
1994
Format
Project on Paper
Materials
Mixed media, written statements, photographs and drawings
Description
GENG Jian Yi's accounts for this work: "The inspiration for the work: One day, when I came home, my neighbors told me that in the afternoon someone had come to see me. No matter how they each tried to describe this person, I couldn't work out who it was. This feeling troubled me, so I decided I had to find out exactly who it was. The means to discover this: I asked each of the neighbors who had seen this person to write down their description of him and to draw a likeness of him, I then took photographs of each of the places where these people said they had encountered this unknown person." (Geng, [projects gallery], Shanghartgallery, available on https://www.shanghartgallery.com/artists/gengjianyi/project.htm) (Jerry Wu'23).