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Erosion of the memory
Erosion of the Memory explores the concept of intrinsic impermanence of the memory.
Artist statement:
This work explores how small objects like rocks, seashells, polished glass shards, and pottery pieces found on walks serve as physical anchors for memories, preventing them from being entirely forgotten by crystallizing and petrifying them somehow.
However, no matter the use of little trinkets to remember, I’ve come to understand the inherent impermanence of these memories. Just as these objects undergo weathering, erosion, and disintegration over time—glass shards becoming smooth, pottery decorations fading, broken seashells turning to dust and sand—so do the memories they represent.
This process mirrors the crystallization and the slow fading and vanishing of our lived experiences, emphasizing the delicate and ephemeral nature of memory.
Exhibitions:
Erosion of the Memory was created in 2024 and exhibited at:
- Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, Sweden, in May 2024.
Building a home in between
Building a Home in Between is a project that explores the concept of “Home”.
Artist Statement:
I live here and there — not really a nomad but not really settled either. I live in a sort of constant motion. I settle in, while always being ready to leave. My home has to fit into a backpack, and sometimes a couple of suitcases if I am lucky enough. I live in between places. And I am constantly building, unbuilding and rebuilding a home for myself.
What makes a home for me might not resemble what makes a home for others. My home isn’t where I live in, but is made of a collection of ordinary objects that I end up carrying with me, memories I’ve made and fragments of the places I’ve lived in and travelled through. These objects are connected together through the perception of what is home for me. They are the bricks that form the walls of my home.
I’ve been carrying those bricks for a while. I’ve grown used to their weight. One might think it gets easier over time — but on the contrary, sometimes it makes moving around more and more difficult, as if I’m slowly loosing the sense of belonging anywhere.
It makes me want to start piling up those bricks together once and for all somewhere to finally build a permanent home.
Exhibitions:
Building a Home in Between was created in 2023 and exhibited at:
- Emergence Culture Night Exhibition, Wickham Way, Limerick, Ireland – September 2024
- Christmas Showcase Exhibition, Debenhams, Limerick, Ireland – December 2024
- Ceramics Ireland Annual Members Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland – July–August 2025
Pitcher
Pitcher is a research project I worked on in 2023 and which I used to explore and learn. I used a same brief to practice 3 different ceramic techniques: Throwing, Slip casting and Handbuilding.
Throwing
Water…
Fluidity, drips, liquid. What inspired me for this part of the project is what are pitchers meant to contain.
Using the throwing techniques I explored the form of water drops. I used its shape to guide me and to create the body, the handles and the spout of those pitchers. The glazing process was also looking at overflowing liquids.
The final triptych is representing the evolution of the work through the process of learning to throw bigger.
Exhibition:
- Work In Progress Exhibition, LSAD, Limerick, Ireland – May 2023.
Slip casting
Plastic…
It’s everywhere. Bags, packaging, containers… They come in millions of forms, shapes and colors.
They represent a major threat in terms of pollution.
Through this research and exploration of the slip casting techniques, I decided to make molds of various plastic containers and combining them together to create conceptual pitchers. I intend to talk about recycling. And I experiment using various media with some parts made of ceramic and other created with actual styrofoam or plastic parts found in the dumpster.
Handbuilding
Metals…
Steel, copper, iron, gold, silver, brass. Metals have been used like ceramic to make functional wares for centuries.
Using hand-building techniques I looked at textures, shapes and colours we can find in metal utensils, specifically interested at first with hammered effects. I went into using the slab building technique mainly and started exploring from there, creating textures.
I then initiated some glaze research on metallic glazes to go deeper in the search of imitating metal wares.
Ghost Gear
Ghost Gear is project that explores the ocean pollution, duality, environmental tragedy.
Artist statement:
Lost or abandoned fishing gears drifting on their own, entangled in rocks or beached on the sea shores. Weapons in which thousands of creatures get trapped and die in an endless deadly cycle. And playing a considerable part in the plastic pollution in the ocean.
I navigated the work through the notions of being trapped, caged, caught up in something. By growing up by the sea, my inspiration often comes from anything related to the ocean, and I narrowed my reasearch specifically on fishing gears. I collect hundreds of pictures of colourful fishing nets taken while traveling here and there. I found them beautiful, I like their colours, their textures, their shape.
Through handbuilding ceramic beads and slip casting buoys and floaters I tried to recreate ghost gears in order to create an installation through which I wish to show how damaging those are through oppositions : visible and invisible, beauty and horror, mobility (life) and immobility (death), being here and not here…
Exhibitions:
Ghost Gear was created in 2022 and exhibited at:
- The members Exhibition of Ceramics Ireland, Dublin, Ireland – July-August 2023.
