eva pelechová

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THE FACTORY

2014

45×45×0.5 cm

casted porcelain, cobalt decoration

Infiltration to the collection of Asian art, National gallery, Prague

I depicted China's marvellous mountains on a porcelain panel print in an illusionary way in which we know the mountains form Chinese landscape art. The scenery below emerges out of fog, like in a sci-fi film, to reveal thousands of workers labouring away like robots. This image unites two basic associations we make with China. On the one hand it is a power that is great, thriving, and is spiritually firmly anchored in the empire of the past. On the other hand, it is an anonymous colossus driven by a utopian (?) idea of a better future.