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Things Change

Object NameInstallation

Artist Maria Bang Espersen (Danish, b. 1981)

Made FromGlass, Brick, Rock, Window Glass

Date2015

Place MadeNorway, Bergen

TechniqueBlown

SizeOverall H: 53 cm, W: 300 cm, D: 95 cm

Accession Number2019.3.30

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

New Glass Now (TRAVEL)

New Glass Now

CA+D Reopening 2020

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

“Infected” with foreign materials—rocks, pieces of brick, and window glass—Maria Bang Espersen’s blown glass vessels slowly crack and disintegrate over time, offering an achingly beautiful reading on mortality and impermanence. -Aric Chen

Physical DescriptionInstallation, "Things Change". Colorless glass, brick, rock, window glass; blown. Five (5) blown colorless glass narrow-necked vases containing window glass and pieces of rocks or bricks. The inherent incompatibility of the materials causes purposeful deterioration like cracks, which will turn the vases into new shapes as they are handled and displayed. (a) Vase with three large fragments of glass adhering to body and two large fragments that have separated from vase; (b) vase with small rocks; (c) vase with one large fragment of glass adhering to body; (d) vase with red bricks; (e) vase with large rocks.
Provenance

Source Maria Bang Espersen (Danish, b. 1981) - 2015-2019-12-03