Green Snakes

Monkeys play a key role in the work of Mu Pan (Taichung City, Taiwan, 1976). For him, monkeys represent human nature in its rawest form, without any filter. In Green Snakes Mu Pan’s approach is naturalistic, endowing the monkeys with behaviours apparently rooted in the natural world, but are not characteristic of monkeys, such as eating snakes. The Asian-American artist Mu Pan has made mixing cultures his personal brand. His works present multiple narrative layers, personal reflections on human behaviour where humour and violence often come together.