About this artwork
This teardrop-shaped piece composed of celadon-and-white porcelain shards belongs to Yeesookyung’s Translated Vase series, which revisits traditional Korean ceramic practices through a contemporary lens. In Korea, potters routinely destroy works that do not meet their high standards. Using broken or repaired ceramics is also taboo, and keeping such pieces in a kitchen is considered bad luck. By deliberately choosing shards of porcelain that have been abandoned by other artists, Yeesookyung questions and challenges conventions and celebrates the beauty of imperfection as well as the idea of second chances.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of Asia
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Artist
- Yeesookyung
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Title
- Translated Vase_2015 TVGW 3
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Place
- South Korea (Artist's nationality:)
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Medium
- Ceramic shards, epoxy, 24K gold leaf
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Dimensions
- 130 × 105 × 105 cm (51 3/16 × 41 5/16 × 41 5/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Louise Lutz and Margaret Gentles endowment funds; restricted gift of Gay-Young Cho; Arts of Asia Travel Purchase and Edward Horner Sr. Memorial funds
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Reference Number
- 2021.248
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Copyright
- © 2015 Yeesookyung
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