Clay is one of the oldest materials human hands have touched.
Ceramics has undergone a quiet revolution. What was once shelved as craft, useful, decorative, secondary to painting and sculpture has moved firmly into the territory of contemporary art. The artists in this archive are not potters in the traditional sense. They are conceptual artists who happen to work in clay because no other material holds the mark of the hand, remembers pressure, and survives.
Three years ago clay arrived. From that exact moment it felt as natural as breathing. Giorgia Piu — Rose de Nour — is a ceramicist based in Rome with strong Mediterranean roots, a background in painting and drawing, and an approach to clay that is completely her own: contemplative, instinctive, and deeply rooted in the earth. She and the matter. She and I.
She doesn't plan the end result. She listens to what the material wants to say. IAAI — Ia Kutateladze, Georgian, Berlin-based — on intuition, meditation, and the excitement of surprising yourself with your own process.