Nilou Ghaemi is a ceramic artist with a focus on hand-building and sculptural works. Experimental processes are a driving force within her practice, pushing clay beyond its expected boundaries. The work is an amalgamation of perceived reality and fantasy, dissolving boundaries between time and space. Clay as a shapeshifting material is contradictory by nature, both fragile and seemingly everlasting, making ceramics a fitting medium for exploring the ideas and experiences around decay, ephemerality and memory.
lovers’ picnicstoneware, glaze, epoxy, wall hanging

2023
23" H x 42" W x 1.5" D


The image shows two figures lying together while their silhouettes overlap. The piece conveys a visual depiction of relationship dynamics, space, and closeness, within the frame. Compressing spatial distance and perspective to show each figure as an individual and the abstract overlap of shapes they form together.