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Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Hustlers, my neck, my back series, 2023

Jennifer Ling Datchuk American, b. 1980

Hustlers, my neck, my back series, 2023
Porcelain
9 x 9 x 4 in
22.9 x 22.9 x 10.2 cm
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These porcelain baby forms are cast from an antique Chinese export ware ceramic pillow form – made to prop up the head to protect hairstyles during sleep. An uncomfortable form...
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These porcelain baby forms are cast from an antique Chinese export ware ceramic pillow form – made to prop up the head to protect hairstyles during sleep. An uncomfortable form of labor to protect the façade of wealth and status. I remade them to carry the weight of Asian women’s labor and they seem to have an expression of delight on their faces, while being in a table-top position, carrying things on their back—a nod to how Asian women experience fetishization while also laboring and providing service, product, resource. The objects they carry - peaches, oranges, blue and white porcelain vessels, peach pits, and sewing thimbles - represent longevity, luck, beauty, and are symbolic of the labor they embody and the comfort and care they provide for others when they often go without.

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Exhibitions

Bemis Center, Eat Bitterness May 20 –September 17, 2023, curator: Rachel Adams

Literature

Jennifer Ling Datchuk Interviewed by Michelle Millar Fisher, Bomb Magazine, Sep 5, 2023 (illustrated)
Trimble, Lynn. “An Artist Who Braids Cultures, from the Porcelain Trade to Beyoncé.” Southwest Contemporary, July 24, 2025. (illustrated)
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