Wu Shanzhuan a 42-year-old Chinese artist living in Hamburg, realises plants, as well as performances from which it takes photographs and works on paper.

"The inspiration of Wu Shanzhuan clearly emanates from the visual world of the Cultural Revolution. However, his work offers a collection of relevant contemporary Asian culture cluttered by the media. Instead of resorting to calligraphy, mode of expression that involves a personal touch, the artist uses a typographical impersonal to deliver messages on instruction, prohibition and persuasion. This suggests the dominance of a faceless official uniform, mask impersonal power. His work evokes space stifling slogans and advertisements, but unlike what happened during the years of the communist revolution, these are messages from different speech, provoking a confrontation between the words without any report them.

Imagination subversive Wu also penetrates the ideological structure, and more particularly that of language, when it creates confusion in texts written by inventing words counterfeited. Her words have a false sense other than the written word, they are presented as individuals, thus enhancing the accuracy of the written text. […]'s Writings Wu avoid personal demonstration of power. His calligraphy is writing appeared after the fall of dynasties. The power suggested by writing standardized Wu draws its sources in the bureaucracy, or democratic socialist, consisting of the anonymous masses. "

Chang Tsong-zung