About the Object
Part of Danh Võ’s ongoing We the People project, this sculpture reproduces a full-scale fragment of the Statue of Liberty. This section comes from the drapery near the base of the monument. Removed from its original context, the sweeping copper folds appear both grand and abstract, highlighted by the interplay of material and surface. Like all works in the series, the fragment was fabricated in Shanghai using traditional repoussé techniques and forms part of a larger sculpture dispersed across multiple locations worldwide.
[Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris];
Private collection;
Sale, Phillips, London, 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, June 28, 2019, lot 185;
[Attika Fine Arts Ltd., London];
[White Cube, London];
Vilcek Foundation, New York, NY, acquired through the above, 2025.
New York, NY. Public Art Fund. Danh Võ: We The People. May 17–December 5, 2014.
Copenhagen, Denmark. Statens Museum for Kunst. Danh Võ: We The People, June 1, 2012–December 21, 2013
Meskimmon, Marsha. Migration into Art: Transcultural Identities and Art-Making in a Globalised World. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020.
Take My Breath Away. New York, NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 2018.
Danh Võ: We The People. Chicago, IL. The Renaissance Society. 2012.
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