Translated Vase, Yeesookyung (born 1963)

The artistic practice of Yeesookyung delves deep into Korean consciousness, uncovering fragments of historical memory that she turns into new manifestations of contemporary life. Her ceramic sculptures known as Translated Vessels are comprised of broken ceramic pieces that have been reimagined into biomorphic “mutant” sculptures. Collecting discarded shards of ceramics from waste piles of present-day Korean ceramicists, each organically shaped form emerges from a painstaking jigsaw-puzzle process in which the artist instigates new connections between disparate shards.