Six white doll heads with serene expressions arranged in a line on a plain background.

Johnson Tsang

Alliance

€950
Limited edition of 200

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Johnson Tsang's new limited edition sculpture asks what it really means to live alongside others.

Alliance depicts a line of six cherubic baby faces, smooshed cheek-to-cheek in tender, almost suffocating closeness – capturing what Tsang describes as "the entangled, love-hate relationship between people". First created in 2021 under the title Coexistence, the work represents both the joys and challenges of co-living, intimacy and mutual support. For Tsang, the work carries a quietly radical message: that our identities are not prisons, but interpretations, and that we are always free to let go, and create new forms of self and community.

This limited edition sculpture was produced in close collaboration with the artist, showcasing his signature hyperreal sculptural techniques and instinctive touch that gives each character a life of its own

Johnson Tsang looking towards the camera with several of his sculpted heads behind him
Johnson Tsang12 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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