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Happy Family
Digital image
05/2019

I found a nice rural family that was willing to take a family portrait with me, and there were two options:

1. All nude, with a high reward.
2. I’m nude, the reward is cigarettes, and still, they should be willing to be printed as my work.

On no doubt they chose the second option. Nude as a classical symbol in western art, as well as contemporary art (also ruled by western discourse), seems irony here: the interference of a non-modernism (as well as every -ism, some of them may be rich, but daily life still keeps a rural way) daily life seems to be tense.

This work will be finished when I’m able to find a family choose option 1 (equals really rich).
Tang Qiansheng 

观念 2021.06 - 2023.10

        Ongoing:
  1. 1,000 Vipassanā 2018.06 —   2021.06
  2. Shanghai Museum / Gallery Staff Biennale
  3. Source Han Serif NW
  4. Ta Ta
  5. Ta Masterworks Publishing Project
  6. Workers in the Office, Unite!
  7. What Are We Doing? What Will We Do?
  8. How Do Printing Shops Think About Art? 
  9. Household Summer Orange
  10. Handheld Air Cleaner
  11. Introspect, Introspect, Act!
  12. I Love You
  13. Tangerine 100 (HD edition)
  14. Research

        Finished
  1. Fondation Dynastie Tang pour l’art: A Beautiful Identity
  2. Online Exhibition: Protest Activity and Joint Letter to Royal College of Art
  3. Two Hundred Days Tales From The Thousand and One Nights
  4. Heterosexual Men Research
  5. Properties
  6. Pepper (white)
  7. Summer Orange
  8. Tangerine 100
  9. Flower Table  
  10. Cloud 1.5m x 1.85m
  11. Cloud 1’57”  
  12. The Cloud In Front of My Eyes (book)
  13. Sticky (book)
  14. Eating
  15. Happy Family
  16. Fence Up The PSA 
  17. Encircling The PSA (Exhibition
  18. Working
  19. An Hour 
  20. Mattress 1.5m x 1.9m
  21. Painting!
  22. Fly, Acrylic
  23. Cheese
  24. Persimmons, Persimmons
  25. Artists
  26. Dust to Dust
Mark