Last week in Beijing, artists Sun Yuan and Pen Yu unveiled their latest work they call “Angel”
The work is frighteningly realistic, and photos of the work are being
shared across all social networks. The piece has been installed in
China’s capital, reports the Daily Mail.
The sculpture is of a disturbingly lifelike old woman whose body is
tangled due to her ‘fall from grace.’ The sculpture was created using
fiberglass, stainless steel, silica gel and woven mesh. No matter how
close to the sculpture you get, it appears unbelievably real from the
gray hair and facial wrinkles to the fleshy wings. The sculpture looks
as though it could rise from the ground at any moment.
Some of the artists other sculptures, though not as visually extreme,
contain more extreme things including human fat tissue, live animals
and even baby cadavers. The artist’s goals are to “challenge our
perceptions of the human condition as well as death.”
According to the artists, their latest work “Angel” is intended to
“highlight the tension and transition between the supernatural and the
mundane. The angel, a transcendent being, has become powerless, unable
to carry out God’s will, or to help those who believe in its existence.”
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