Pés de Barro
Event
Some people may associate clay, pottery and ceramics with tradition, and tradition with the past. Some may associate technology, digital communication and databases with the new, and the new with the future. What if the future is a technology as old and peculiar as clay? What if, after all, clay is a material that is permanently self-renewing and gives time its unpredictable configurations? What if clay is the future and the future is clay?
And if the feet of clay only reveal vulnerability because the rest of the body is made of a different material? What if the feet of clay are actually to root people to the earth, connecting them through the same material? And if the feet of clay are a way of establishing post-technological communication, which does not require networks or cables? Only our many, one, two, eight, twenty feet and some clay?
These are some of the questions and riddles that curators Chus Martínez (curator, art historian, writer and director of the Art Institute of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel) and Filipa Ramos (writer, curator of the Art Basel film section and one of the curators of the latest edition of Fórum do Futuro) focused on bringing together a group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, plan and shape the world in which they live in.
And if the feet of clay only reveal vulnerability because the rest of the body is made of a different material? What if the feet of clay are actually to root people to the earth, connecting them through the same material? And if the feet of clay are a way of establishing post-technological communication, which does not require networks or cables? Only our many, one, two, eight, twenty feet and some clay?
These are some of the questions and riddles that curators Chus Martínez (curator, art historian, writer and director of the Art Institute of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel) and Filipa Ramos (writer, curator of the Art Basel film section and one of the curators of the latest edition of Fórum do Futuro) focused on bringing together a group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, plan and shape the world in which they live in.