Dropping A Yassin Dynasty Vase

2012 | Performance documentation | Photo series | 120 x 90 cm each

A photo-triptych documentation of a performance held for a few seconds in Jingdezhen, China, one that is both embedded within and critical of the assembly lines of global art production. The photographs capture the destruction of one of the prototypes of the artist’s own series -Yassin Dynasty - depicting battles from the Lebanese civil war. The triptych's title (Dropping …) also discloses an attitude that is simultaneously cathartic and cynical to a personal and familial history, to a "dynasty" with no authority. Dropping a Yassin Dynasty Vase is a parallel work, a copy of Ai Weiwei's Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, and poses questions about cults of personality and shifting consumption trends within the art world.