Artist Statement
During the process of working, we always produce remainders. A lot of theme simply become waste, while others will get a sense only later, perhaps after years.
I have collected and kept objects over time without knowing why, but simply by following an impulsive fascination. And yet over time a peculiar connection slowly showed up between these objects, a certain intimacy, even among things that were distant from each other.
I find this connection, the way these objects are recalling or completing each others, something valuable and important. But at times it is important for me to make order as well, to throw away what was piled up in the course of time.
Sometimes it is precisely this gesture of taking away and reducing, that becomes the essential one.
Artist Statement - about "States"
It may seem paradoxical to define the ceramic works as something that remains unfinished, considering that the firing process effectively marks the point of end of the production. And yet, in the case of this last series of works, I tend to consider the firing of a piece not so much like a conclusion, but rather like a transformation of it, a way to undo something that I have built, a change of the rigid order of the structures.
The heat causes the material to become soft and malleable, and what is deformed through heat then crystallises during the cooling process. The movement of the piece is in fact interrupted. I don ́t consider the sculptures unfinished in themselves, I rather see incompleteness in the suspended moment in which they find themselves. It is therefore a feeling of incompleteness.
I am fascinated by this movement of the material in the kiln, and by its subsequent crystallisation. It is something swinging between immobility and transformation, between softness and rigidity.
I provoke the deformation of the structures: by building unstable forms, omitting bounds within a structure, or firing pieces on an inclined surface. I experiment different shapes, always taking into consideration what I think that might happen in the kiln. I play with probability and never fully know what is going to come out of it.
It is a feeling that swings between chance and control, the will to hold something and letting it go. It is also a practice that constantly challenges expectation: nothing fully comes out as expected. And this is precisely what fascinates me.
