Ongoing production of ceramic portrait series

Since the fall 2022 I have been embarked in the production of a long, challenging and also wonderful project named “Our Time” (Unsere Zeit).

In “Our Time” I continue exploring the intersection of performance and ceramic objects. Performance in this context is understood as a series of intimate, one-on-one encounters.

“Our Time” consists on a series of interviews to a number of residents at the elderly home Bürgerasyl-Pfrundhaus in Zurich. In the second part of the process I produce a series of abstract portraits using painted fired clay as medium.

“Our Time” is a project supported by a Covid-19 Grant from the City of Zurich.

In progress: Ceramic Worlds

Clay is another canvas - or, better said, body - on which memories of what was or what could be or could have been appear. They build and display a narrative of the moment. They record it like a book. Perhaps a map. Used to work on paper - a very fast medium for me - clay is an extremely slow material, impossible to control, surprising and very moody and stubborn

Image: detail of Ceramic World N.2 (Rainbow Portal)