This vibrant, organic sculpture features a captivating blend of textures and colors. The piece is composed of intricate, overlapping shapes in shades of blue, green, and yellow, creating a visually striking, almost alien-like appearance. The irregular, undulating forms suggest a natural, biomorphic aesthetic, evoking the shapes and patterns found in marine life or geological formations. The artist's skilled use of glazing and layering techniques imbues the sculpture with a sense of depth and movement, inviting the viewer to explore the intricacies of its unique, imaginative design. This contemporary artwork likely aims to challenge conventional notions of beauty and push the boundaries of traditional ceramic practices. ...
Kris Lemsalu’s practice is filled with eccentric colours, shamans, talismans, kitsch imagery and materials such as clothing, food and animal pelts. Working in installation, sculpture and performance, the Estonian artist’s works deny categorization and invite ritualistic catharsis of life and death, beauty and pain. Mimicking the formlessness of life itself, her works and performances transcend structure into absurdist mix of textures and materials; with cheap rubber bags being attached to precious porcelain, a toothbrush burning between the artist’s lips or a chicken-eggs-chandelier hanging between her legs. Lemsalu’s exquisite use of her body as a material alongside the strangeness of her inanimate objects blends the very distinction between herself, her art and life, more broadly. Fairy tales and folklore, fantasy and reality become indistinguishable in the artist’s universe of kitsch and absurdity. With no beginning or end, Lemsalu’s practice is a metamorphosis in action. ...
