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Medium: Sứ | Porcelain
Dimension: 23,5 x 17,5 x 4,5 cm

ARTIST STATEMENT

Making ceramics is a process involving numerous steps. Each step demands from the artist different handlings of the material in environments that are constantly changing in humidity and temperature. I dissect each stage of the process, skipping the part with glaze and colour, and focus only on the earth-clay material, specically porcelain clay, and its potential shape. Then, I ask myself how do people conjure shapes in clay, or how far can I push the limit of this material; how to maintain the material and its natural beauty and how to imprint my emotions onto it.

Finally, I gather all my ceramic experiments and display them in a space, observing them under layers of light, circling them, and in doing so I can acutely feel the bodily existence in my relationship with the medium and its physical forms.

After 4 years of working with ceramics as the main material in my practice, from the initial works imbued with personal stories, my recent experiments in the studio seem to give way to the voice of the material, as a reciprocal relationship, in which sometimes I use ceramics to talkabout myself, sometimes ceramics use me to talk about the natural properties of matter. Sometimes working with ceramics also leads me to look at the broader context of where I live, the story of traditional craft villages, the irresistible changes of the landscape as an inevitableconsequence of the material production.