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Yeonwoo Chang, stoneware ceramic jars in Lunar Simulant Glaze, 2024.

Moon Jar Project by Yeonwoo Chang

Exhibition

Installation by Yeonwoo Chang

Stoneware ceramic jars in Lunar Simulant Glaze, grey sands, minerals, 2-channel sound work, poster with text, photo collage.

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www.ywoo-c.com

Sound work
00:13:00
Edited by Yeeun Namgun


The Moon, Earth’s solitary celestial companion, stands as an unbounded source of inspiration for mankind. Its distinctive mass, deviating from that of other satellite-bearing planets, not only captivates with its sheer splendour but also exerts an impact on the establishment of a habitable climate for our planet. Moreover, in recent times, the moon has ascended to the forefront of global attention as a new frontier in space exploration around the world.
 “Project Moon Jar” is an artistic research and conceptual endeavour that started from the idea to make a historical type of ceramic masterpiece—the Moon Jar—with the moon soil. The Moon jar, a moniker bestowed upon a specific style of porcelain pottery originating from the late 17th-century Joseon Dynasty, traditionally comprises two hemispherical bowls seamlessly conjoined at their centre. Many of these exquisite artifacts were relocated abroad during the era of Japanese colonialism, significantly shaping the landscape of modern pottery culture.
 
 The first outcome of this project, the ‘Highland Moon Jar’, is a pottery piece created by joining two hemispheres and using a glaze made from ‘Highland Lunar Simulant’ as the raw material. The ‘Highland Lunar Simulant’ is an artificial regolith dust composed of synthetic minerals from our Earth that replicates one of the moon’s regolith masses. This artificial lunar dust is being developed by various research institutes internationally and is fabricated and utilized to explore various physical properties of lunar surface. Approximately 74% of the Highland Simulant is composed of Anorthosite, while almost 25% is made up of Basalt.
 
The project endeavours to delve into the manifold dimensions of the moon as a tangible entity, encompassing its significance as Earth’s natural satellite, a resource, a territorial asset, and a symbol of cultural expression. Moreover, the aforementioned undertaking aspires to highlight on the symbolic and economic worth of cultural artifacts in international museums and the post-colonial debates surrounding them, using the Moon Jar as a lens. By bringing together the moon as a geopolitical territory and pottery as a cultural value, it is hoped that a captivating discourse will emerge through the medium of soil.
 

Exhibition @ Galerie TIC, Brno, 25.6.2024 - 3.8.2024
https://galerie-tic.cz/en/moon-jar-project

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Moon Jar Project by Yeonwoo Chang
June 25, 2024
Location
Brno, Galerie TIC