Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Radicchio Leaf, 2023

2023

Medium

Casted glass

Dimensions

30 × 30 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155890

With "Radicchio Leaf" (2023), Anne Duk Hee Jordan transforms the delicate structures of salad leaves into glass. The work seems organic and artificial at the same time, thereby revealing the transitional zones that run throughout her entire oeuvre: between biological systems and technical apparatuses, between reality and speculative construction. This ambivalence is characteristic of her approach to nature as a narrative space—one that does not merely represent but provides access to ambiguous worlds. In Jordan’s sculptural and installation works, hybrid ecosystems emerge in which humans, machines, and nature interpenetrate. "Radicchio Leaf", through referencing a trendy ingredient and symbol of monocultural agriculture, translates this line of thought into a quiet, almost contemplative gesture: a man-made leaf of glass points in its fragility to the vulnerability of ecological systems and the exploitative relationship between humans and nature. In the context of the exhibition, "Radicchio Leaf" becomes part of a broader narrative about transformation, control, and symbiotic interconnection. The works oscillate between research and fiction—alternative world models emerge in which the human is no longer at the center but embedded within a multilayered, fragile structure.