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The Chinaman Must Live
As an export, as a collectible, and as a cultural relic, blue-and-white china has become an unmistakable symbol of luxury and Chinese heritage. Ceramics, which is both an enduring yet fragile material, embodies the duality of heritage: unbearably great and inescapably burdensome. Such an enduring material requires the sacrifice of body, energy, and labor to manufacture. The Chinaman Must Live interrogates the relationship between the earth and the body, between body and labor, sacrifice and creation, heritage and burden. Inspired by mythological symbolism and the tradition of Chinese landscape paintings, XY’s porcelain babies become land and sea.
XY Zhou (they/she) is a graduating senior concentrating in translations between mediums. They are interested in the change and evolution of ideas as those ideas are forgotten, relearned, and explored again through different artistic forms.
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