Take Care, Be Well - Close Looking: Translated Vase

Artist Yeesookyung reassembles discarded porcelain shards into intricate sculptures with gold accentuating the former breaks. In this close-looking exploration, we will delve into the material, symbolic, and aesthetic qualities of her work in the Smart’s collection, Translated Vase (2007), and consider what lessons of care we might learn from her art practice. Led by Gary Kafer, Academic Engagement Graduate Intern in the Smart Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry and and PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.