“Crawling Through Clay” Exhibition
Clay Space 1205
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The show borrows it’s title from Crawling Through Mud Associations (Sodeisha), a ceramic movement that emerged in Japan 1948. By taking the name from a Chinese glazing term, the members wanted to highlight their complete absorption into the medium. They questioned all the conventions of ceramic traditions: form, decoration, and function. They utilized the material to come to terms with their own existence and addressed issues of presentation, social hierarchy and politics.
Crawling through Clay brings together three artists, that today, continue to push the possibilities and associations of clay with a strong emphasis on creating a sensory experience and physical interaction with the material.
Fanny Allié questions existence and the human relationship with our own bodies, memories and society at large. She uses natural and commonly available materials such as clay, fabric, wood, paper and plaster. One of her pieces in this show bears an imprint of a face, suggesting the ceramic process of mold making while giving reference to memories and the relationship between objects and our bodies.
Chunghee Han lets the viewer enter into an unfamiliar event or situation in order to create a heightened consciousness of our bodies and our senses. The piece in this show is comprised of shards of ceramic embedded in tiles of transparent latex. As the tiles are walked on or touched we can experience the ceramic shard breaking under our feet, and thereafter watch it regain its original shape. Chunghee is giving the fired piece of ceramic the properties of wet unfired clay, a malleable material that can be modeled and remodeled innumerable times.
Larisa Daiga combines ceramics, video and sound. Her pieces are multi-sensory experiences of clay as a material. They consist of large, hollow ceramic balls with a camera mounted in its interior. The balls are set in motion and the camera records what the ceramic object sees. The hollow, rhythmic sound of the ceramic as it rolls over the floor with light entering through the opening and cracks in the walls of the piece appear to grow bigger through its sometimes aggressive rocking motions, giving the viewer a rare opportunity to experience the properties of fired clay from the inside.
Following the ideals of the artists associated with Crawling Through Mud Association, the three artists in Crawling Through Clay are moving away from considerations of conventional form, decoration and function. Instead, their work focuses on the deeper understanding the physicality of the material as a way to address issues of existence by creating pieces that reflect on our bodies and senses.
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Schedule
from May 31, 2013 to June 23, 2013
By appointment only.
Opening Reception on 2013-05-31 from 17:00 to 21:00