Transitional germs: a study of fractures

Ceramics already contain, within their process of creation and formation, the passive undergoing and the active acting of birth—the first brutal exploration of space: at the moment of firing, their chemical and physical structure changes forever.

Ceramic objects, once shaped by the artist’s hands, then enter their own life experience: the actions surrounding them will re-determine them—friction, breakage, accidents, falls, protection, care.

An alternation of moments and movements that will define the work throughout the installation, until its conclusion. Concentrated within the 48 hours of the festival’s duration, the work will pass through an existential experience—or perhaps nothing at all: only a passage, a repositioning, everything carefully returned to its packaging… perhaps nothing will happen… only a little more dust.

Surfaces alternate between a rough exterior crossed by sounds and interruptions, and a glacial interior defined by glazing, frozen in its moment of birth and loss.

Exposed. The fragmentation of the surface indicates the fragility of existence, the fragility of the infinite and multiple possibilities of being: living tissues that thicken and living tissues that break, tear, and disintegrate.

The interior shines with burnt liquids; the rough exterior becomes an envelope no longer necessary—paths without trails, traces of past movements.