Julie & Jesse on EMBER
• – • BluePrint
About the speaker
Julie & Jesse is the collaborative ceramic practice of designer Julie Progin (CH) and artist Jesse Mc Lin (US). Their experimental and research-based works resist categorization, stretching across the fields of design, craft, and art, moving seamlessly between functional and pure artistic expression sculptures. The duo’s projects expand existing perceptions and expectations of porcelain exploring the boundaries of this material—stretching its possibilities and working in a state of constant equilibrium investigating its heritage to create a new language. Their work has been distinguished at the Cheongju, Gyeonggi and Taiwan International Biennales and is held in the collections of the K11 Art Foundation, and the China Ceramic Museum. Their signature series Fragment(s) is held in collections worldwide including the M+ permanent collection and currently on display in the institution’s Making it Matters exhibition. Based between Hong Kong and Jingdezhen, Julie & Jesse has produced shows with Novalis, Ilivetomorrow, Whitestone Gallery, participated in exhibitions at institutions including the Chicago Design Museum, Musée Magnelli, and Somerset House, and completed commissions for the Palace Museum as well as international fashion house COS.
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Additional details
On the power of embers to linger and reignite: Hong Kong based ceramic artist and designer duo Julie & Jesse explore how the residues of a two-thousand-year-old porcelain industry has fuelled and shaped their creative practice. The duo reflects on ideas, traditions, and precedents that inform their work. Their conversation imparts how shards, the embers of the porcelain industry, have sparked in them the desire to discover narratives hidden within the age-old material and how, through their investigative and experimental approach to ceramic, they transform them to honour the past whilst embracing the future. Julie & Jesse discuss how archaeological remnants help them make sense of the world and have become catalysts for their internationally recognised artworks, from their signature Fragment(s) series to their recent For What it’s Worth exhibition at Novalis Art Design Gallery.
Location
Hosted at
BluePrint
2/F Dorset House Taikoo Place, 979 King's Rd, Quarry Bay
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Kong
When
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Volunteer Josie Ling
Volunteer Louisa Harker
Volunteer Jose Urbano
Volunteer Tracy Wong
Volunteer Ruby Wong
Volunteer Tanja Polansky
Host Rachel Smith
