2018Edition of 04
Fragment(s)
The limited edition | Vase A | Series 02
Fragment(s) is an exploration and experimentation to capture the limits and the relationships between molding techniques, kaolin, firing and colors. This limited edition of porcelain vases captures the break and decay of a mold to reveal the beauty in deterioration and create a memory of what would otherwise be discarded.
The designers developed unique casting techniques to capture direct impressions of the residues of the porcelain industry of Jingdezhen setting forth a reminiscence of the history of the city and creating a new archeology.
As a conceptual project it is an intellectual recognition of the entropy of processes and forms, an incursion in time-honored practices and age-old shapes that become the memory of the fragment and a transgression of the tradition.
Fragment(s) also explores material and symbolic parameters in order to produce a post archeological iconography.
Words: Julie Progin
Photography: Tong
