This exhibit explores clay in its varied states, from raw, to mud, to the fired state that turns clay into ceramics.
Here, Almuelle uses fresh clay to create an installation formed by hand to contrast with a wall piece consisting of a series of discs harvested unaltered from local clay sediment.
These 2 installations with a series of cephalic vessels bring the human presence, not as a protagonist of landscape, but as a commentary of the body as place and receptacle of memory, like the land itself.
CLOSING RECEPTION:
Friday, October 1st
5 - 9pm
Open to the public, masks required
Alejandra Almuelle was born in Arequipa, Peru. She spent few years in Pizac in the Sacred Valley of Cuzco, a center for ceramic making. Peru is a country in which the abundance of clay has made this medium a language of artistic expression. Clay is its own idiom, and being there, she began to speak it. After she moved to Austin, she started working with clay. Addressing the functionality of the medium as well as its sculptural expression has been equally important for her. She has participated in art fairs, galleries and museums with both pottery and sculpture.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Art Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department