Shi Jinsong was born in Dangyang County, Hubei Province in 1969. He majored in Sculpture at the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts in Wuhan, where he mastered a range of traditional techniques, including carving and casting. Under the influence of three powerful stimuli – radical socio-cultural change in china; a reading of ‘Madness and Civilization’ by philosopher Michel Foucault; and the birth of his first daughter, he began to investigate ideas of transformation and control. Through his razor-sharp sculptures and related works, Shi Jinsong initiates a dialogue, at once menacing and ironic, between the forms of mythic Chinese culture and modern day globalization. Including his ‘Ne Zha’, series, a satirical brand — an outrageously unsafe line of baby products.

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