'Another Silk Road' presents work by nine contemporary ceramicists, engaging with the metaphor of the Silk Road — an ancient network of trade routes connecting Asia, the Mediterranean world and Europe, along which the ebb of desires and demands shaped the flow of developments and new technologies — to consider the role and impact of cultural exchange between diverse individuals. Each artist has a connection to China and the work of each is shaped or inflected by the experience of working across cultures, consequently questioning what it means to be “Chinese”.
Artists:
Jackson Li
Ching-Yuan Chang
Guang Hui Chen
Paul Mathieu
Ying-Yueh Chuang
Laurens Tan
Julie Bartholomew
Wenmin Li
Douglas Cham
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Curated by Jacqueline Clayton
Supported by Arts NSW. 'Another Silk Road' and The Australian Ceramics Triennale 09 are supported by The Department of the Arts, Sports and Recreation.
Title Image: Paul Mathieu, binary bowls (boy with cap), 2004, [chinese text: what is appropriate? what is inappropriate? what is inside? what is outside?], cast porcelain, onglaze enamels, 10 cm high, 22.5 cm diameter; 10 cm high, 21 cm diameter
Banner Image: Wenmin Li, bird and cactus, from the ‘reaching likeness through unlikeness’ series, 2009, earthenware, underglaze colour and ceramic pencil, each component 15 x 15 cm Photograph: Wenmin Li
Install Images: Installation view: 'Another Silk Road', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 2009.