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January 22, 2021
Christopher Jobson
Via 9 ceramic bowls, Yurim Gough untangles the complicated narratives surrounding efficiency, look, and gender fluidity. Her identity-centric items—that are infused with layers of pencil renderings, thread, and different supplies that may require practically a dozen rounds of firing at a number of temperatures to finish—depict figures outfitted with ostentatious costumes and elaborately painted faces. Drawing on facets of queer tradition, Gough’s vessels are disruptive and revisionary, concurrently exposing the dated and constructed nature of conventional gender classes whereas reveling within the historical past of those that’ve subverted norms.
Gough’s gold-trimmed assortment can be on view as a part of Salvage, a gaggle exhibition curated by Colossal’s Founder and Editor-in-Chief Christopher Jobson at Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia. Opening tonight, January 22, Salvage shares how artists are revitalizing fragments of custom and tradition that have been destined to be misplaced, relegated to the periphery, or buried without end. The exhibition, which you’ll tour just about, launches with a dwell speak with Jobson, Gough, André Schulze (beforehand), and Debra Broz (beforehand)—tickets can be found on Eventbrite—and runs by way of February 20.
Now based mostly within the U.Okay., the South Korean artist has a background in trend. Discover extra of her work, which incorporates quite a lot of self-portraiture and concerns of latest tradition, on her web site and Instagram.
#ceramics
#gender
#gold
#id
#sculpture
#thread
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