Couret
Protoplasma
“Protoplasma” is a ceramic piece that is born as an intuitive gesture, a first form, full of latency. Its organic aspect, almost soft, despite the hardness of the clay once fired, refers to a body in constant transformation.
The work is part of the beginning of a broader investigation that explores the notion of the xenobotanical -that speculative territory where plants hybridize with the non-human, the artificial, the imagined-, and the feminine as a generative, receptive and mutable principle. The piece embodies the idea of an organism in formation: an ancestral cell, a matrix, an embryo of something that does not yet have a name
“Protoplasma” does not represent: it generates. It is a territory of possibility. Its texture, its folds and cavities allude to a language of vegetable flesh, of tissue, of the ecosystem. I am interested in thinking of clay as a body-matter capable of storing memory, vibration, possibility. This work functions as a first contact with that universe, a tactile, intuitive, amorphous groping, from which I wish to continue investigating the boundaries between the organic, the symbiotic, the speculative and the sensitive.