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Sumai Yahya – The Bubble

By Sumai Yahya, translated by Laura Vroomen
29 November 2021 1 min. reading time Young Writers on Invisible Labour

Eighteen young authors have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. They have taken inspiration from the question: what do you see when you look at these objects with an eye for invisible labour? Sumai Yahya gives us a look at an Etruscan vase made by Manufacture Impériale de Sèvres in 1858. ‘The whole of history, existing of trembling hands and tons of sex, has led to the making of this vase.’

Sumai BK 1987 14 Etruscan vase, Manufacture Impériale de Sèvres, 1858
© Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam

The bubble

Sumai Yahya Vase
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Sumai Yahya

Sumai Yahya (b.2000) writes poems and short stories, makes films and is into photography. He won the Jonge Campert Prize for best young poet at the 2018 edition of Winternachten Festival. He’s interested in existential subjects, feelings of loneliness and our sense of alienation. Sumai studied at United World College Maastricht, where he was one of the organisers of art festival Amplify, and he is currently studying Audiovisual Design at Willem de Kooning Academie.

photo by Sanne De Wilde

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