This project is the second part of “Self-Taught” series.
All pieces are ceramic sculpture of surreal objects.
Earliest ceramic culture dated back to 29,000 – 25,000 BCE, it mostly related to body worship or Phallism. For example the famous Venue of Dolní Věstonice, which shows a nude female figure, it indicated the power of giving birth, and sex is the primal desire.
On one side, clay is primitive and natural material that belongs to mother earth. Clay allow me to express sex in a similar way as sex is primal desire for human beings. On the other side, I create them all with modern twist and used vivid colours to indicate no matter how the society develops, the root and the natural instincts cannot be changed.
Yiru Chen 