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Li Songsong 李松松
The Happiness of Long Sleep 長眠就是幸福
2006
This painting is a collage of enlarged historical photos that appear fragmented into different points of view. A girl wearing a red scarf reads from Quotations from Chairman Mao to an audience of doctors and patients. Attention is drawn to the facial expressions and body language of the different figures, but Li Songsong’s signature thick layers of paint blur their faces, inviting speculation. Li often manipulates historical photos by editing and obscuring their content, causing us to doubt the truthfulness of what is being portrayed.
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