Zhang Peili (artist)

His major works include 'X?’ series (1986–1987), 30X30 (1989), Water: Standard Version from Cihai Dictionary (1991), Document on Hygiene No.3 (1991), Last Words (2003) and A Gust of Wind (2008).

Recent works of Zhang Peili is interrogative of conventions of viewing, the perception of time, and the notions of progress via the remixing and editing of found footage.

He also attempts to challenge the boundaries of media art, focusing on complex video installations for the previous ten years.

Zhang Peili's 2002 video Actor's Lines is composed of edited and remixed footage appropriated from a 1964 state-sanctioned film.

Zhang transforms the dialogue from one of patriotic love to one that suggests there might be a romantic relationship between the older comrade and the young soldier.

It is existential, nihilistically abandoning national ties and turning to human violence as a concept not justified by its filmic content.

He edits both the audio and video tracks to present the crowd as not actually responding to the speaker, rather overcome with emotion and descended into a mindless frenzy.

The 1996 multi-channel video installation Uncertain Pleasure simultaneously shows 10 different views of a man scratching himself, images haunted by a vague eroticism and sense of voyeurism or surveillance.