DO YOU KNOW, WHAT’S BEHIND?
The main focus is a room installation using local unfired red clay. Danijela Pivašević-Tenner works with local communities to collect objects of daily use and install them in a living room made of ordinary furniture. A liquid terracotta clay slip is then poured in successive layers, day by day, slowly revealing a new landscape hidden within ordinary, well-known objects.
With this work Danijela raises questions about the value of daily objects and our relation to them. The use of unfired materials is a starting point for an exploration of our interaction with ceramics and porcelain. What role does it play in daily life and what are its ascribed historic values? What is the value when the function is removed?
To Danijela, the transformation of the basic material to finished ceramic products subtracts from the natural beauty of the material and also destroys environments. Digging clay changes landscapes and firing processes have negative impacts and so Danijela chooses to use recyclable slip-casting clay or porcelain in her artwork.
SUPPORTED BY
2018, Found objects and raw clay.
Variable sizes
DANIJELA PIVAŠEVIĆ-TENNER has a diploma from the University of Belgrade and an MFA from the Weissensee School of Art, Berlin. She is the artistic director of Ceramic Artist in Residence and Ceramic Artist Exchange - Tandem, in Neumünster, Germany. A lecturer at the University of Kiel, curator of the 2nd International Ceramics Symposium Neumünster, and participant in Post-Colonialism? Israel, she has received grants from Indonesia, the Peter Siemssen Foundation and the 8th International Ceramic Symposium, Römhild in Germany. She has awards from UNICUM 2018, the town of Kellinghusen and was a finalist for the Alen Müller Hellwig Art Award.
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