Eating People by Zhu Yu
“Eating People” by Zhu Yu. It consisted of a series of photographs of him cooking and eating what is alleged to be a human fetus. One picture, circulated on the internet via e-mail in 2001, provoked investigations by both the FBI and Scotland Yard. The piece’s cannibalistic theme caused a stir in Britain when Yu’s work was featured on a Channel 4 documentary exploring Chinese modern art in 2003. In response to the public reaction, Mr. Yu stated, “No religion forbids cannibalism. Nor can I find any law which prevents us from eating people. I took advantage of the space between morality and the law and based my work on it”. Yu has claimed that he used an actual fetus which was stolen from a medical school.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_Off_%28art_exhibition%29)
Barbara Mikkelsen, of Snopes.com, says that the fetus was probably in fact assembled from the head of a doll attached to the body of a duck.
