Sandra shashou biography
Sandra shashou biography
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‘All creativity is based on destruction, the metamorphosis of one thing into another, the end of one entity or state, out of which emerges another’ – Pablo Picasso.
Complex and intricate, exuberant and elegant, Sandra Shashou’s new body of work, comprises of arrangements of smashed fragments of vintage fine bone china tea sets, Russian Lomonosov porcelain, Spanish Lladro and Nao ballerina figurines or German bisque Kaiser nude, dating back to the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
In Shashou’s creative recklessness, there is a comprehensive logic to her deliberate madness.
Coming upon her work for the first time in a gallery, you may think for a moment that you are beholding a classical frieze.
The broken porcelain pieces curve round each other, evoking the battle scenes on the sides of ancient sarcophagi or temples, packed with duelling figures with missing limbs, and which have been reassembled, incompletely but meticulously, in the world’s great museums of Antiquities.
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