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.
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.
stoneware, silver, brass
10.75" H x 7" W x 7" D
This piece is a response to a sculpture on display at
my grandmother’s house. The blue and white ceramic sculpture was a figure of a boy holding a cup. Growing
up the kids were forbidden from touching the display
objects at the house. A challenging directive for most. This piece is the fantasy character behind the original sculpture. It holds a mask of the boy’s face and entices the viewer to interact with its reflective silver cup.