Gunshot, 2004
"Uncertainty, confrontation, adventure, experience, movement... a composition of moments in my pursuit to fully live my life." - Xiao Lu
Xiao Lu was born in Hangzhou, China in 1962 and currently lives and works Sydney, Australia. Xiao Lu works with performance, installation and other art forms, but she is most known for her performance. Best known for raising a gun and shooting at her work in the National Art Museum of China a few months before the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989, thus precipitating the closing down of the show by the government, and her brief arrest, Xiao Lu is considered one of China’s most influential and provocative female artists and is featured in Great Women Artists published by Phaidon.