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Artist: He Jun
Medium: Ink on Thick Xuan Paper
Series: Shout
Canvas Size: 138 × 68cm (54.3 × 26.8 in)
Framed Size: 154× 84 cm
Year: 2024
Frame: Framed in a dark charcoal espresso vintage wooden oil-painting frame
Artwork ID: MBA-2025-35
Authenticity: Original · One of a Kind · Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Overview
This work reflects He Jun’s response to a real-world event —
the moment during a U.S. presidential campaign when Donald Trump was shot, with a bullet grazing his ear.
Rather than reconstructing a specific time or location, the artist transforms the incident into a broader visual and psychological reflection. The composition avoids documentary detail, focusing instead on the collective shock, tension, and emotional rupture triggered by the event.
Through symbolic structure, surging ink, and expansive negative space, He Jun translates an act of political violence into a meditation on fear, power, and public emotion. Figures are reduced to gesture and movement, while the fluidity of ink conveys both turmoil and a moment of awakening.
The work does not function as a political statement, but as an artistic response to a moment of rupture, using the language of ink to explore vulnerability, courage, and human presence under extreme circumstances.