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View at the museum ↗High Tea Pot and Cozy
Studio Wieki Somers2003
- Attribution
- Studio Wieki Somers (Dutch, founded 2003) Wieki Somers (Dutch, born 1976) Dylan van den Berg (Dutch, born 1971)
- Medium
- Porcelain, muskrat fur, stainless steel and leather
- Physical dimensions
- Skull Pot: 22.9 × 45.8 × 16.6 cm (9 × 18 × 6 1/2 in.); Cozy: 22.9 × 55.9 × 7 cm (9 × 22 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Funds provided by the Architecture & Design Society
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Studio Wieki Somers transforms familiar object forms into fantastical devices for storytelling. Profound attention to materials guides this process, which combines traditional and high-tech fabrication methods. The High Tea Pot and Cozy pairs a porcelain imitation of a pig’s skull with a muskrat-fur cozy. Through these objects, the bourgeois ritual of tea confronts the “uncivilized” character of undisguised animal materials. For Wieki Somers, the work is meant to prompt delight and aversion in equal measure, encouraging us to question our relationship to objects.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0