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Do you have an Allergy? (2006) Digital Arts by Shiyi Sheng

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I draw a picture of a plane tree with the use of a matchstick on the body of an allergic person. His skin gradually goes red on the body parts on contact with the matchstick to finally turn bright red, and then starts to ease after three hours to, at last, disappear. I have used about nine minutes of video film to record the whole stages.
Then, I have filmed the same process on a “normal” person, born in France, in order to notice the difference.
The allergic person was born in China, had been living in China until the age of eleven, and then moved to France fourteen years ago. He became allergic a few years after arriving in France. Under the effects of a pressure, his skin turns red : according to the doctors, the allergy is due to changes in the living conditions (food, habitat, water…) This does not happen to every person and symptoms may vary from one individual to another : it is allergy.
I draw a plane tree because Chinese people call them “French plane tree” and most of them think those trees come from France. Actually, plane trees are Chinese and are mass exported abroad, mainly in France, and people call them “French plane tree”. They do not care about their real origins.

Then, I got in touch with student from different countries asking them to draw a picture of their choice, which suits the culture of their native country, on the skin of an allergic person.

Shiyi Sheng

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Place of birth : Jinhua, Zhe Jiang Province, China Language speak: Mandarin, French, English Educational background ： 1990/09 —1993/07 Graduated from No.4[...]

Place of birth : Jinhua, Zhe Jiang Province, China

Language speak: Mandarin, French, English

Educational background ：
1990/09 —1993/07 Graduated from No.4 High School, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province,China
1996/09—2000/07 BFA, Graduated from the Normal University of Zhejiang Province,China Majored
in Pedagogy of fine art
2004/09 —2005/07 DNAP, National Diploma of Visual Art in France, Majored in Communication
2005/09 —2006/06 Candidate for last year of DNSEP, France

Achievements：

Gain a test certificate of China National Mandarin first level at second ,1999
During the college days ： Second Class scholarship for 96/97 academic year
Excellent Student Council Member of Art Schools, 1998
A number of awards for photographic works nominated for " Li Shi Bei" Movie and TV star at the Forth Shanghai Movie Festival ,1997
A Print entitled "Dream land" was chosen to show at the Fifth Exhibition of Fine Art Works by Students of the Normal University of Zhejiang ,1998
Several pieces of art works became part of the Normal university's art
Collections,2000
Excellent journalist of the university's newspaper , 1997/1998
Gain a Scholarship from Beax-Art de Marseiller en France to go to New
York to continue project about “Cross Culture”, 2005

Exhibition’s Experience:

2003/12 Three artists joint exhibition at “the N dimensional contemporary art exhibition”, Art Museum of Guangzhou Fine Art College , Guangzhou , China
2004/11 Du Grande Marché D'art Contemporaine, Paris, France
2005/04 Art exhibition with the theme " La Chine Deparque", Marseille , France
2005/06 Archaeology of the Future “the Second Triennial of Chinese Art” in Nanjing Museum of China , Nanjing, China
2005/10 Video and painting exhibition Bercy of Paris , Paris , France
2006/10 “Contemporary Chinese Visions” New York AMY SIMON Gallery, C.T, U.S.A
2006/11 Massachusetts College of Art to present Chinese film/video, Boston, U.S.A
2007/01 “Landscape showing here” Gitana Rosa Gallery, NY, U.S.A
2007/02 2007 “Lunar New Year Celebration” Solo photography exhibition in International Center of New York, NY, U.S.A
2007/07 Summer Film Screening Series II “Confessional”, NY, U.S.A
2007/08 “Echoes & Reflections’’ China Square Gallery in Chelsea , NY, U.S.A
2007/09 Video “Contemporary Collaboration”, Wanas 2007 20th Anniversary Show, Knislinge, Sweden.
2007/12 Videos show in 2007 Fountain Miami, Miami, U.S.A
2008/03 “The future was then so now what ” SCOPE " in New York Lincoln Center, NY, U.S.A
2008/07 Video "Contemporary Collaboration NO.1" Entry the Best Short Movie Nominees, screening at "Shoot Me Film Festival", Netherlands.
2008/09 Video: "The Walls Are Closing" (collaboration with Bennett Media Studio, for a f...