Danh Vo, We the People, exhibition view, M+, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China (2021). Courtesy of the artist and M+, Hong Kong. Photo: Lok Cheng and Dan Leung.
Danh Vo presents We the People (detail) in the exhibition Collection Objects at M+. The artist has imagined to reconstruct the Statue of Liberty of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi to the same scale as the one in New York. It doesn’t entail a renewal of the statue, but the reconstruction of all the elements, while keeping loyal to the technique and aesthetic, and to present it fragmented in the exhibition. The elements, rarely identifiable, have been dispersed worldwide as if this universal symbol was suspended to an abstracted concept.
For this colossal production, Danh Vo wished to preserve the original technique of the Ateliers Gaget, Gauget & Cie at the end of the 19th century, notably the technique of copper repoussage.
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