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YBAs (Young British Artists) Jake and Dinos Chapman (1966 and 1962 respectively) create iconoclastic sculptures, prints, and installations that examine contemporary politics, religion, and morality with searing wit.
They first gained recognition with their first solo installation, We Are Artists (1992), in which they stencilled an anti-aesthetic manifesto onto a mud-splattered wall at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London. From their etchings of Goya-esque piles of body parts to naked child mannequins whose facial features are replaced with genitalia, the Chapman brothers explore the poles of beauty and pain, humour and horror, the sublime and perverse, the diabolical and the infantile, in ways that shock and confront viewers with their own voyeurism.