Ianni Huang

Casey Chen Havoc in heaven 2 , 2025 glazed porcelain, ceramic colourants, enamels, and gold lustre; fired 5 times 37.5 x 21 x 20.5 cm Turning over an open suitcase, you pluck an old vase from the remnants of someone’s spring clean. You figure there must be something wrong with it, a reason for its discard or something that explains away the impulse of first intrigue. Scattered among the rolling story of peaches and monkey kings, masterfully painted in Qing dynasty aesthetics, you find something that stops you—a beady-eyed Doraemon relaxing in the shade of an antique tree. Casey Chen’s Another Jingdezhen Car Boot Sale collides the worlds of traditional Asian ceramics and contemporary pop culture. Like a time traveler from the past, he draws on parallels to how history, legends, and myths persist throughout culture, constantly being recycled into the present and blending with modern sensibilities and style. Much like the continual adaptations of Sun Wukong and the prolonged endurance of...