An Inherent View of the World (2015) displaces the cultural product, its place and time of origin, both in terms of ethnicity and labor. A multi-year process of collecting mass-produced porcelain objects from around the world shares equal space with antiques. These objects are displayed on top of a table fashioned out of prefabricated industrial material expanding the relationship between fine art and material culture. Conceptually, the work explores the cultural ideology, historical hierarchy, economic and market dichotomies that produced these objects. As a result, the domestic wares are stripped of their passive functions and transformed into vehicles of history. Their ornamental design and decorative patterns serve as indexical references to the social class that both collects and dictates their production and distribution.
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- Subject Matter: Installation
- Created: 2017
- Inventory Number: 2017INS_c_w_m_002_012
- Collections: Installation, Projects
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