Shen Shaomin is a Chinese artist who creates sculptures out of animal bones. He becomes an anthropologist, a scientist and an author of his very own creations. The sculptures embody his concern of transhumanism and the directions science and technology are leading our world. He often presents his work as if it were a valid museum displays playing off its colossal scale to emphasize the prehistoric origin and the curiosities of our imagination. Carving into the bone, he covers his creatures with ‘scrimshaw’ to further reference human interference with this disturbing ‘historic’ or ‘future’ evidence.
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