Bio

Qinglin Yu's works are mainly installations and performance art. Her works always reflect and expose the social problems she encounters with interesting and even absurd forms of art.

The connection between animals and human beings has an inexplicable attraction to her, and she specialises in the use of animal imagery in the form of allegory, in an attempt to explore the connection between human beings and animals.

Butcher's Feast

Utilising the similarities between animals and humans, the artist examines how different cultures view different animals, adopting the arrangement of figures from the famous painting The Last Supper and assigning a different animal figure to each person who has harmed the artist or stood by while the artist was harmed. Created in the scratchboard style of the artist's childhood, this work returns to the roots of humanity and the artist.

Except for the elephant in this painting, all other animals eat insects or meat to a greater or lesser extent. As a center of power, elephants control other animals even though he doesn't eat meat. The painting is full of perpetrators, but there are no images of victims, because the opposite of the perpetrators is the victims. Everyone standing in front of the painting can appear as a victim.

Exhibition renderings
Butcher's Feast Exhibition