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Yana Fortep Yakimova on کورسو (KOORSOO)

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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.