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M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Zheng Guogu
Zheng Guogu 鄭國谷
The Vagarious Life of Yangjiang Group 陽江青年的越軌行為
2000
These sculptures depict figures with exaggerated features in a fight, with arms raised and legs twisted around each other. They recall Zheng Guogu’s photographic work The Vagarious Life of Yangjiang Youth (1996), which depicts the artist and his friends enacting fights, mimicking scenes from Hong Kong cinema and video games. Zheng later asked the sculptor Chen Daman to help produce sculptures based on the photographic work. These works were displayed in Zheng’s home before being exhibited at Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, in the 2004 exhibition My Home Is Your Museum, which dealt with the connections between Zheng’s art and his personal life.
Zheng Guogu’s early work examines the daily lives of people in his home town of Yangjiang, a second-tier city in the Pearl River Delta, in the context of globalisation. He often collaborates with artists in his community, and established the Yangjiang Group with Chen Zaiyan and Sun Qinglin in the early 2000s. The collective’s work addresses life as art, and is inspired by seemingly mundane activities, such as binge drinking and gambling.
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