Bio
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Through my career in the humanitarian field, I found myself on assignment in Tunisia, where I rediscovered my passion for ceramics. Mesmerized by seeing local potters, working away on the wheel in their workshops, I discovered Sejnan and the variety of traditional techniques that have existed since the dawn of human craftsmanship and artistry.
I quickly found myself taking my first-ever ceramic lessons in Tunis learning the traditional craft used for centuries in hand-building and coiling techniques and enjoying the freedom of sculpting.
Clay had entered my veins, taking me to Daniela Vacca’s workshop in Roma, Italy, where I spent every minute, for four years, learning, studying, ”alchemysing”, crafting and growing as a ceramist, in Daniela’s inspiring and stimulating creative environment. Then came the decisive moment when I let go of my professional career in the world of international organizations and embraced my passion for ceramics to become an artist.
Artist Statement
Through my work, I seek to let the invisible express itself — to reveal what must be expressed, brought into being, as if serving as a vehicle for something greater than the self, while consciously shaping ideas and projects that balance the manifest and the yet-unmanifested. Through my research on ceramic forms and shapes, I explore and reinvent movement and form to capture a certain quality or energy that evokes the impulse to touch the ceramic pieces, to connect. At the same time, my projects on identity and self-delve into what it means to be a social being — a human among others unknown — tracing the boundaries and dissolutions of selfhood, the wounds and masks we bear, and our relationship to the Universe and our place within it, and its significance. This experience prompted me to expand my practice into different medium and art forms, such as sculpture, installation work and photographs.