My Left Hand
2004
Artist
- Sheng Qi, Chinese, 1965
- Born: Anhui province
- Work Locations: London, England, Beijing, China
Country
China
Object
sculpture
Medium
Bronze
Accession Number
2015.644
Credit Line
Gift from Vicki and Kent Logan to the Collection of the Denver Art Museum
Sheng Qi
My Left Hand, 2004
Bronze
Edition 4 of 9
Gift from Vicki and Kent Logan to the Collection of the Denver Art Museum, 2015.644
© Sheng Qi
Dimensions
height: 14 1/4 in, 36.1950 cm; width: 4 in, 10.1600 cm; depth: 3 1/8 in, 7.9375 cm
Edition
4/9
Inscription
Edition, date, and number etched on bottom: "4/9 / 2004 58"
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Collection
Modern and Contemporary Art
“My Left Hand” is a cast bronze sculpture of a left hand and wrist extending vertically from a square base. The pinkie finger is conspicuously missing. After Tiananmen Square, Sheng decided to go into exile and left China. He is infamous for severing his left pinkie, which he planted in a flowerpot and left behind in Beijing in order that a small piece of himself would forever remain in his homeland.
Sheng Qi was born in 1965 in Anhui Province, China. He earned his MFA from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London in 1998, and he currently is currently based in Beijing.
Exhibition History
- "Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection"— San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [07/10/2008 - 10/05/2008]
