This calm and composed man is artist Zhu Yu, who got his hands on some aborted fetuses, went and cooked and ate the fetus for a series he called 'Eating People'. He has related his performance to his Christian faith, 'Jesus is always related It death, blood, wounds, etc.'This kind of art has been tagged 'Shock Art' an extreme form of art that is embraced in China, where revolution is bubbling up.
When the photographs originally surfaced and even appeared on a Channel 4 documentary about modern Chinese art, there were doubts if the photographs were real, turns out they were! Channel 4 got in trouble for a a "lack of respect for human dignity" for broadcasting the image of Yu eating a fetus. Channel 4 hit back by saying that the image was acceptable in that it remitted to"take on challenging subjects and explore cultural boundaries".
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