A white, elongated, teardrop-shaped sculpture with a face showing closed eyes and puckered lips.

In Position

€900

A white, elongated, teardrop-shaped sculpture with a face showing closed eyes and puckered lips.

Johnson Tsang

In Position

€900
Limited edition of 300Shipping est. 9–16 Apr

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Johnson Tsang rediscovers a forgotten piece from his archive of sculptures, and through it invites us to ponder our unfulfilled dreams.

In Position is translated from a clay sculpture of the same name. It depicts the face of an infant combined with distorted human features, creating a figure “yearning to stretch out freely, yet confined to a space where it does not belong… in a world that stifles its expression”. 

In typical Tsang style, the sculpture is a surreal blending of the physical and emotional, the realistic and the fantastical. Through this piece, the artist hopes to inspire people to look back at the hopes we once held, and wonder: “What am I truly passionate about? Does that dream still exist? Could I go further if I pursued it?”This limited edition sculpture was produced in close collaboration with the artist, showcasing his signature hyperreal sculptural techniques and expressive facial renderings. It’s the first time In Position has ever been released as an edition, and marks our 13th collaboration with Tsang.

Johnson Tsang looking towards the camera with several of his sculpted heads behind him
Johnson Tsang13 collaborationsJohnson Tsang’s surreal porcelain sculptures balance illusionary compositions with hyperreal aesthetics. Despite their delicate craftsmanship, they depict grotesque scenarios: a human face twisted like a wet towel; a fed-up newborn trapped inside a birdcage; or stacks of human heads squashed inside glass cabinets. Half cherub, half Buddha, the artist’s bulbous figures have an amusing fleshiness. While Tsang’s work recalls aesthetics from across art history, such as Chinese ceramics and Neo-classical sculpture, the self-taught artist predominantly draws from personal experience and his intense, bizarre dreams. In his waking life these are given in physical existence via his art.

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