, London Sun Yuan & Peng Yu have created
Kinetic art and
Installation art pieces that work to incorporate unconventional and organic materials into artworks and create "statement" pieces about the current systems of political and social authority. These materials include taxidermy, human cadavers, live animals, and machinery. Their piece, entitled
Honey, featured the face of an elderly man, embedded in a bed of dry ice, with a curled up foetus next to it. Both these bodies were not sculptural works, instead cadavers were utilised. For the 2005
Venice Biennale, the duo invited Chinese farmer Du Wenda to present his homemade
UFO at the Chinese Pavilion.
Angel (2008), was a
fibreglass angel sculpture complete with flesh-covered wings, white hair, and frighteningly realistic skin that featured details like wrinkles, sunspots, and peach fuzz. Their 2009 solo exhibition,
Freedom, at Tang Contemporary in
Beijing, featured a large firehose hooked to a chain that erupted water spray at a distance of 120 meters and thrashed throughout an enormous metal cage. Their 2016 work,
Can’t Help Myself was commissioned for the
Guggenheim Museum and displayed as part of their
Tales of Our Time exhibition. The robot was programmed to endlessly attempt to sweep red, viscous, blood-like liquid into a circle around its base, in the process spreading and splattering the "blood." It was also programmed with thirty-two "dance moves" and reacted to people around it. These "dance moves" became more "depressed" and erratic as time went on, and eventually stopped operating in 2019. ''Can't Help Myself'' was also displayed in the
2019 Venice Biennale's main exhibition, "May You Live in Interesting Times." In the controversial
Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other, eight dogs (four pairs facing one another) were strapped onto treadmills in a public installation. It used living dogs for performance as part of the art. It was purposely provocative, and organizations such as PETA criticized the piece. This was part of the exhibition “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World”. The Guggenheim later released a statement, explaining the artist’s intentions. This piece was eventually removed from the Guggenheim’s digital archive. ==Selected exhibitions==