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# "Wrapped Terracotta Neck-amphora (Storage Jar)" by Clement Valla
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/wrapped-terracotta-neck-amphora-storage-jar-by-clement-valla/
- Published: 2014-12-03T04:59:37.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:45.000Z
- Description: "Wrapped Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)" (2014) is a sculpture that is neither an object nor an image.
- Author: Clement Valla
- Tags: Art, hypersalon, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

![clement-valla-amphora-1280](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/clement-valla-amphora-1280.jpg)

*Editor’s note: This is the second piece in a series of articles, images, interviews, and essays for the* [*#hypersalon*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/hypersalon/) *catalogue. The online publication accompanies* [*Hypersalon*](http://hypersalon.net/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*, a weeklong series (December 2–7, 2014) of salon-style exhibitions, artist talks, and conversations on the conditions of networked culture in contemporary art.*

**Title:**

Wrapped Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)  
Attributed to the New York Nettos Painter  
Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Period: Proto-Attic  
Date: second quarter of the 7th century B.C.  
Culture: Greek, Attic  
Medium: Terracotta  
Dimensions: H. 42 3/4 in. (108.6 cm); diameter 22 in. (55.9 cm)  
Classification: Vases  
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1911  
Accession Number: 11.210.1  
Year: 2014

**Medium:**

Inkjet on linen, foam

![clement-valla-open-1280](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/clement-valla-open-1280.jpg)

**Description:**

“Wrapped Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)” (2014) is a sculpture that is neither an object nor an image. Valla used digital 3D capture to reproduce a 7th-century Greek amphora on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. To highlight the artifacts produced by computer vision the completed reproduction is broken down into its constituent parts: a flat image wrapped around a 3D volume. The resulting sculpture echoes the packing of objects for storage and shipping, transitory moments when only an object’s image is accessible. The image ends up serving as surrogate for the sculpture underneath.

Image courtesy XPO Gallery