Seen at London Art Fair yesterday...Korean artist Yee Sookyung from her "Translated Vases" series, at Union's stall. Was thinking along similar lines.
"...the newest works are her Translated Vase series which are sculpture composed of pieces derived from actual ceramic works, but the finished product of her work is something unfamiliar and unusual. The method she uses to attach the pieces together correspond to the restoration of valuable ancient ceramics and these works are distinctive in the sense that they allow the viewer to become mindful of notions of the what is highly valued versus what is abandoned, what is historical versus what is modern, and what is art versus what is non-art. The artist questions the viewers as to who is the artist. The act of the ceramists destroying their failed works can be read as cliché in a sense of an artist wanting a flawless piece of work but at the same time it is also a gesture of contributing scarcity to commonly made ceramics. On the other hand, the artist’s act of collecting the broken pieces to make a new piece of work, and the circus acrobat (featured in the artist's drawings) trying her best not to break the ceramics can be seen as the exact opposite gesture of the ceramists."
Text excerpted from ONE AND J. catalogue essay by Kim Hee Kyung (2006)
Lost something in translation I reckon. I could've paraphrased this but no one would've paid me for it.
http://www.oneandj.com/gallery/ex_about.php?exhibition_no=25
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