Made in China is the result of Keiko Fukazawa’s numerous art residencies spent in China’s Jingdezhen province, known as the Porcelain Capital for its 2000 year old tradition of blue-and-white pottery.

For such an ancient art form, Fukazawa was impressed by the open creative energy that the artisans and fellow students put into their work. Encouraged, she produced a series of objects combining tradition and modernity. Hints of pop culture sneak their way into her sculptures: a Mao bust covered with flowers, porcelain Chinese landscape boxes fringed with Louis Vuitton symbols, Magritte-inspired Buddha figurines.

“Today, such issues as ‘Old v. New’, ‘Progress vs. Regression’, ‘Nature vs. Industrialization’, ‘Community vs. The Individual’ and ‘Communism vs. Capitalism’ are challenging China. In my work, I want to find and express the tension, truth, irony and drama at the point at which all these opposites meet, however chaotic that point may be,” says the artist. 

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