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Dang’s partially-glazed ceramic figures allude to the carved beads of a German rosary dating back to the Medieval / Early Modern period. The rosary (gifted in 1917 by American Financier J.Pierpont Morgan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it remains on view today) is composed of eight beads, carved in great detail from ivory and gilded in silver - materials which betray the colonial extraction employed in its making. Intended to be a holy object of penance and a reminder to live virtuously, the memento mori was elementally ciphered from a savaged ecosystem via forced labor. Dang was …