Yang Zhengzhong became famous in 2000 with his half-hour video “(I Know) I Will Die” that features short sequences in which a series of people speak the phrase "I will die" to the camera. It was included as a multi-channel projection at the 2007 Venice Biennale to great acclaim. It is a disconcerting, soberly presented film that confronts the viewer with existential questions.

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Related Exhibitions:

Gutes Sterben – falscher Tod (Dying Well– False Death), Museum für neue Kunst (Museum of New Art), Freiburg, Germany 05.19, 2017 -09.30, 2017

Contemplating Death, Media Art Lab, Moscow, Russia 04.16, 2013 -06.26, 2013

Moving Image in China: 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai 09.09, 2011 -11.27, 2011

2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan 10.09, 2007 -11.02, 2007

I Will Die, Brussels, Belgium 2001

Useful Life, Temporary Space, Dong Daming Rd, Shanghai 2000

Related Works:

YZZU024

I Will Die

YZZ_0097

I Will Die (Complete Single-Channel Version)