Drops

2022
Porcelain, readymade objects, electronics & programming
Exhibited at the Fieldstation 2022, Ifö Center, Sweden

The work was created during a three-week curated residency program organized by S L A M, at the abandoned ceramics factory, focusing on contemporary, experimental clay practices, which I attended as an invited artist.

The artwork consists of ceramic sculptures, found objects, and touch-sensing electronics. The installation activates, and water hoses leak when the exhibition visitor moulds the lump of clay, acting as a sensor. The work changes as the unfired clay sculptures get wet, soften, and lose shape.

The work is born from processing my bodily boundaries. The experience of being surrounded by technology, living in its power and my body as a machine was present in my creative process. The work began with mould-making my body and reproducing my skin and clothes on porcelain. I felt the plaster around my limbs and the clay in my hands. They stuck to my body hair, pinched, and went under my fingernails. Working with fragile pieces of porcelain made me bend.

I try to accept imperfection. I try to remember that I’m not a robot. Touch is a vital but destructive force. This is my attempt to keep it together. Building, destroying, fixing.