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.
5.5" H x 73" W x 8.5" D
The single piece that is repeated resembles hip bones but when assembled they take the form of a vertebrae. The dry surface of the chain has a fine cracking texture. The raw colour of the red clay is a reference to the
creation story in islam which states that humans are created from clay.