Sun Xun is considered one of China’s most talented rising young artists. His works have been shown at numerous galleries and museums, from The Hammer Museum in LA to the A4 Contemporary Arts Center in Chengdu. The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will be presenting the first European retrospective of his film works. The artist will be present. The two film programmes will be complemented by a small exhibition of Sun Xun’s recent artwork in Oberhausen.
In his films, Sun Xun keeps experimenting with diverse media, from painting to woodcuts, traditional Chinese ink and three-dimensional models to coal drawings, collages and more, all of which he translates into stop motion animation films. His work revolves around history as filtered by the media, the contradictions between official historiography and personal experience. “I have two means of encountering history: either through school education or oral history recounted by my grandmother and my father. The version of history taught in school has an obvious political assertion, while oral history comes from individuals’ memories, which can also be distorted. In this way, history often embodies prejudice from different cultures, nations, political parties or individuals“, he stated in an interview in 2014 (artradarjournal.com). For more information, please visitkurzfilmtage.de.