WOLF
RAKU enameled ceramic
60 x 20 x 16cm 📷
@tpopesco
A POCKET IN THE EYE
“vi el Aleph, desde todos los puntos”
Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph, 1949.
Pockets are analogue places.
Fragments of daily life slip into them almost absently: a
coin, a card, a folded receipt, a tissue, an object kept
without ceremony and found again without explanation. What
gathers there rarely obeys reason alone. Things accumulate by
contact, by contingency, by affect. Their presence is precise,
yet their logic often remains elusive.
At the center of our gaze lie these pockets, multifaceted,
with porous and tender edges, within which our innermost
feelings resonate—a few tears, a few laughs, and sometimes a
few burns. These pockets crumple and tear allowing certain
thoughts to dangle from our eyelashes, waiting for a leap, an
encounter, or finally, some meaning.
The exhibition moves through such liminal zones, where
interiority is neither declared nor entirely disclosed, but
rather perceived in partial opacity. It reveals our need to
adorn this fragile connection to a world that sometimes leaves
us astounded. These gestures of the intimate then become motif, fold, surface, embellishment and form. They register as gestures of care, and as forms of resistance. Ornament, within
this constellation, appears less as a supplement than as a way
of relating. At times it resembles a membrane, or a surface
through which something passes without settling into language.
Together, the works create a new territory: one made up of
fragmented realities, counterpoints, echoes, and unstable proximities.
They invite a slower form of attention, one in which meaning emerges through encounter, adjacency, and time.
@virginie.clavereau ’s ceramics unfold layers of meaning and materiality,
through glazes and textures, inviting us into a dance where
what protects us and what strengthens us come face.
@morgane_ely
@elise__guillaume
#olgagrotova Olga
@laurenjanuhowski
@shanta_rao ’s
Looking, then, is not an act of mastery. It is an exposure to
density, to proximity, to the irreducible complexity of what
remains only partly legible. It wonders: what composes your
pocket?
@valeriadiazgranada and
@ohmylolz 
