work
Ornamental Cups
| category | Sculpture |
| subject | Nature, Beauty |
| tags | Everyday objects, process art |
| base | 10 cm |
| height | 5 cm |
| depth | 10 cm |
| year | 2021 |
Six-pieces set of china with cups, color pigment, salt crust.
In this six-pieces series, the artist manages to create six small live systems, which she decides to manipulate by adding brines every day over a period of two weeks. In this way, the natural process of salination is achieved, as the salt crust slowly covered the entire objects. The artist emphasizes hereby the ambivalence between social and cultural sustainability by proposing a different value of these collector items (ornamental cups). Also, through the manipulation of the six cups – which are characterized by a strong cultural heritage – she conveys the fragility of nature and things that easily submit to the destructive/constructive power of man. Another important content contained in this piece is that of cultural awareness towards nature, referring to the forced insertion and to the preservation of a natural, and fragile, element (the salt) in a cultural setting (the cups). This opens the possibility for valorization of existing cultural goods.
In this six-pieces series, the artist manages to create six small live systems, which she decides to manipulate by adding brines every day over a period of two weeks. In this way, the natural process of salination is achieved, as the salt crust slowly covered the entire objects. The artist emphasizes hereby the ambivalence between social and cultural sustainability by proposing a different value of these collector items (ornamental cups). Also, through the manipulation of the six cups – which are characterized by a strong cultural heritage – she conveys the fragility of nature and things that easily submit to the destructive/constructive power of man. Another important content contained in this piece is that of cultural awareness towards nature, referring to the forced insertion and to the preservation of a natural, and fragile, element (the salt) in a cultural setting (the cups). This opens the possibility for valorization of existing cultural goods.
