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2010 - Present | Edition of 50 + AP + GP

Fragment(s)

The limited edition | Vase C

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’.

The particular process to make each Fragment(s) results in a totally unique and unrepeatable shape for each piece. No two vases look the same as the molds decay and color combinations change. It is this inherent beauty and diversity that the designers are setting forth in this limited edition of 50 + AP + GP vase C.

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C | 38 / 50

White biscuit porcelain, yellow slip, clear glaze
W 35 x D 30 x H 61 cm
2018

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C | 37 / 50

White biscuit porcelain, yellow slip, clear glaze
W 35 x D 30 x H 61 cm
2018

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C | 35 / 50

White biscuit porcelain, yellow slip, clear glaze
W 35 x D 30 x H 61 cm
2018

Fragment(s) | Vase C

Work in progress
Jingdezhen
2012

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C | 34 / 50

White biscuit porcelain, yellow slip, clear glaze
W 35 x D 30 x H 61 cm
2018

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C | 33 / 50

White biscuit porcelain, yellow slip, clear glaze
W 35 x D 30 x H 61 cm
2018

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C | 32 / 50

White biscuit porcelain, yellow slip, clear glaze
W 35 x D 30 x H 61 cm
2018

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C | 30 / 50

White biscuit porcelain, yellow slip, clear glaze
W 35 x D 30 x H 61 cm
2018

Fragment(s) | The poetics of decay

Exhibition at Ilivetomorow gallery
2013

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C | 26 / 50

White biscuit porcelain, yellow slip, clear glaze
W 35 x D 30 x H 61 cm
2018

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C | 25 / 50

White biscuit porcelain, yellow slip, clear glaze
W 35 x D 30 x H 61 cm
2018

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C | 24 / 50

White biscuit porcelain, yellow slip, clear glaze
W 35 x D 30 x H 61 cm
2018

Context

Jingdezhen

Located in the Jiangxi province and known as the porcelain city of China, Jingdezhen has a history of over 2000 years in porcelain making.

Julie & Jesse have been working there for over eight years during which they have established a production studio and developed several porcelain collections for their own brand, for private clients and for special commissions. During the years spent in Jingdezhen Julie and Jesse have made a unique research based on the ceramic history and practices of the city in discussing and working hand in hand with local craftsmen and mass production factories.

They have accumulated knowledge of a large range of specifics and studied the standard typologies and forms produced historically and presently in the city as well as the unique qualities of the local kaolin and its firing processes. Julie and Jesse’s investigation of Jingdezhen also lead them around the city where the landscape is undeniably shaped by the ceramic industry with mountains of remains composed mainly of broken molds and porcelain pieces.

These residues bring to light the entropy of the processes in ceramic production and revealed themselves to Jesse and Julie as a poetic decay, offering a kind of ‘real-time’ archeology of the city that inspired Fragment(s).

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase C

In the press & exhibitions

Enquiries at hello@juliejesse.com

Exhibition at Sheng Gallery, Photos


May 31, 2022

Upcoming exhibition at Sheng Gallery, Qingdao


May 28, 2022

Julie & Jesse in Gafencu Magazine, Hong Kong


April 20, 2022

Julie & Jesse in Echelon Magazine, Hong Kong


January 5, 2022

Home Journal – Hong Kong


February 24, 2020

Exhibition with Na Space, Shanghai


September 5, 2019

We’ve been shortlisted for the 4th edition of the Cluj International Ceramics Biennale


July 16, 2019

Exhibition at Na Space, Jingdezhen, Photos


June 19, 2019

Exhibition at Na Space, Jingdezhen


June 5, 2019

Exhibition at Sheng Gallery, Qingdao, Photos


June 4, 2019

Upcoming exhibition at Sheng Gallery, Qingdao


March 31, 2019

China Ceramic Artist – China


March 11, 2019

Qingdao Ceramic Exhibition, Photos


September 25, 2018

Upcoming exhibition in Qingdao


September 15, 2018

Julie & Jesse in Design Perspectives – Taiwan


October 16, 2017

Julie & Jesse in Ming Pao – Hong Kong


June 1, 2017

Wonder Magazine – Hong Kong


April 30, 2017

Julie & Jesse in the South China Morning Post – Hong Kong


April 26, 2017

Confluence.20+ exhibition at La Triennale di Milano Photos


April 14, 2017

Upcoming exhibition at La Triennale Di Milano


March 20, 2017

Elle Men – Hong Kong


July 1, 2016

Elle – Hong Kong


March 1, 2014

Ming Pao – Hong Kong


February 1, 2014

Fragment(s) exhibition at Ilivetomorrow Photos


March 1, 2013

Fragment(s) exhibition at Ilivetomorrow


January 1, 2013

Architectural Digest – China


December 1, 2012

Radical Materiality exhibition Photos


October 29, 2012

Core 77


October 18, 2012

Voyage – China


October 1, 2012

Upcoming exhibition at Beijing Design Week


September 1, 2012

WE | 我們

Terra Immobile

Pocket Garden

Without leaving your room

Terra Mobile

Déshabillé | Series 04

Fragment(s) | The Bottle edition | Series 12

Fragment(s) | The Bottle edition | Series 11

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase A | Series 02

Déshabillé | Series 03

COS x Julie & Jesse | Erosion

Erosion | Library of 600

Fragment(s) | The Bottle edition | Series 10

Fragment(s) | The Bottle edition | Series 09

COS x Julie & Jesse | Fragment(s) | The bottle edition | Series 01 – 06

Erosion | Library of 300

Fragment(s) | The Chicago edition

Déshabillé | Series 02

Déshabillé | Series 01

Irony

Clay Bodies

Erosion | Library of 500

Partial

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase A

2by4

Fragment(s) | The limited edition | Vase B

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