Residency Work: Within These Walls | natasha-mayo

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There is a particular quality of silence in an empty room, especially a family home when the door slams loudly and voices dissipate along the street. It is as if the air exhales, released from its constant disruption, constant churning by children running up the stairs and through doorways. For a moment, it is given reprieve to settle into the spaces left behind.

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WITHIN THESE WALLS

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The symposium ‘Porcelain Another Way’ presents a unique opportunity for artists to test out their abilities.

Its location in Walbrzych, Poland places them in the heart of the European porcelain industry and within reach of politically changed landmarks. Working within one of 3 factories in the area, they subject their practice to its particular firing temperature and routine. The 34th symposium brought together sixteen International artists that it was my absolute privilege to interview.

The following videos are interviews in two parts: footage taken in the first weeks of arriving in Poland and footage taken weeks later at the resultant exhibition showcasing the results of the residency

Porcelain Another Way: Piotre Fiadro

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Porcelain Another Way: Piotre Fiadro

CERAMIC GRAFFITI Piotre Fiadro’s work is not created to sit on a plinth and be viewed directly. His subject matter is about what lies in the periphery, what happens when objects slip from our attention and become a part of something else, transforming, evolving into other contexts, other possibilities...

Adam Abel

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Adam Abel

NEW TECHNOLOGIES NEW APPROACH Adam Abel The use of film enables Adam to suspend time and to shift the usual order of things, to push the very act of transformation to the fore. There are no traditional cycles of life and death here, no commencement and conclusion. We are moved swiftly between events, in fast- forward, in reverse then forward again. ..

Daewon Kim

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Daewon Kim

MATERIAL MEMORIES Daewoon Kim The process and activity of making is an essential aspect of Daewoon Kim’s ceramics. His work conveys its own history, like a timeline, its surface bears evidence of the beginning, middle and end. Using his heel and the weight of his body...