MONIKA GEDRIMAITĖ

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Lithuanian ceramic artist and designer

Born in 1990, Vilnius Lithuania

 

The author consistently explores the dialectic between the vessel as a material and conceptual derivative. The artist is interested in utilitarian foundation of ceramics and new uses. By universalizing the meaning of the vessel in her work, she reduces the latter in her work until there is only a trace, a hint that does not refer to specificity. Using the technical methods of creating and deconstructing ceramics, the author presents the objects of an imaginary function, which are not necessarily related to the original purpose, giving them a new concept.

 

A Rock and the Wind Collection
A Rock and the Wind are the artist’s allegorical terms, reflecting the different poles of the collection. The Rock defines what points to the material part of the work, to the reduced basic elements. The Wind describes the part of ceramic technological process and development of a thought. These aspects deconstruct the usual division of objects into certain functions and technical ways of performance. Together, a Rock and the Wind play an oxymoron to the perpetual flow of time, to the vanishing touch and the silent collapse.

 

“A Rock and the Wind” (1)
Stoneware, transparent glaze, 3D hand-printing, 2019.
“A Rock and the Wind” (2)
Stoneware, pigments & oxides, various glazes, author’s technique, 2019.
“A Rock and the Wind” (3)
Stoneware, glazes, author’s technique, 2019

 

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