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Sun Boyi
Krzysztof Bobrowski
Sun Boyi is a motivated Chinese independent filmmaker and
Born …. to paint and create.
artist. Since her first encounter with electronic video equip-
Educated in a country between the West and the East, the
ment, Sun has been practising moving image for nearly 14
artist was influenced by dissonance of the two worlds. Broad
years in the genres of video, television, documentary, digital
education injected intellectual depth and spiritual experienc-
film, experimental film and, most recently, film installation art.
es embellished it. The artist unites different contradictive
Sun’s practice interests have always revolved around the crea-
rhythms, aggressive expression of drawings, nostalgic slash of
tive development of ‘Gan Jue’ (translates as ‘feeling’) as a tool
portraits and suggestive intenseness of the conceptual art.
to promote ‘mutual understanding’ between different societies
The artist was inspired by various art civilizations: glamour and
and species in film practice, and to help to break down ‘bound-
nostalgia of Italian art, furiousness of Spanish art and reflection
aries’. Influenced by Taoist and Heidegger’s phenomenological
of oriental art. The pieces of art have been created in different
thought, she is particularly adept at using allegorical tech-
techniques like drawings in pencil or Indian-ink, pastel, oil and
niques to expose social issues through the trivial experiences
acrylic painting as well as water-color.
of everyday human life. So far, she has produced a range of works, including The Inner Voice (2013), The Gate (2015), The Beginning of a War (2016), Mr Zhang(2018), and A Truth Hunter(2021). Her works were awarded Best Black Humour Movie at both the Los Angeles Film Festival and Festigious International Film Festival, and selected by the China Documentary Academy Awards, London Independent Film Festival,
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Pandemic-shot (1)
Atlanta International Film Festival, Ethnografilm
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Paris Film Festival, Barcelona Planet Film Festival and the Golden Globe Awards. Sun is currently studying for her PhD at the University of the Arts London. Her current practice is particularly
Pandemic-shot (3) Size: 50 x 70 cm
The Gate (2016) Size: 50 x 70 cm
concerned with the translation of different ways to feel’ formed by Chinese culture to the international community through film practice in the post-epidemic era.
Inner Voice (2013) Size: variable Medium: digital media
Medium: watercolor-pencils
Medium : watercolor-pencils
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Medium : digital media
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