Ceramic Art That Reveals an Unspoken Secret: Maria Angquist Klyvare

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THE CERAMIC ARTIST MARIA ANGQUIST KLYVARE, received a commission in China. In 2005 she would do a piece of art--a permanent wall in the Fuping ceramic art museum. Klyvare has for many years shown an excellence in constructing images made of tiles in different sizes. Her images become dissolved into shades of colours when you come close to them. When you look at them from a distance they turn into photorealistic impressions. The message is that you need the distance in order to reflect and really understand. The wall she would do in China was representing the Swedish landscape. She went to Fuping where this Swedish contribution can now been seen.

In China Klyvare discovered another story than the one about the graceful Swedish nature. She got in touch with a secret that nobody talked about. Every day 3,200 small (birth to four years old) female children disappear. Children whose only mistake was to be born with the wrong gender. The Chinese cultural values, like many other cultures in the world, place boys first. In fact in China, it is …