This undulating copper form is a full-scale replica of a section of the Statue of Liberty, hammered to the same thickness as the original sculpture, equal to that of two pennies. Vo divided up this iconic image of freedom, producing more than 250 individual elements. His goal was not to erect the statue as a whole but to leave it in fragments dispersed across the world. Taking its title from the preamble of the United States Constitution, this fragile form reflects the abstract nature of the concept that it represents. For Vo its meaning lies in having people “renegotiate what they think of freedom.”
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