THIRD PRIZE

Némesis, 2019

Red clay, engobe and crystalline clay

 The pieces mix in their morphology the typical elements of many of the traditional functions of the ceramic material. This self-referentiality includes the utilitarian in the evocation of water ceramics, the representational equivalence of the sculptural in figurative suggestions and organic structuring, and the presence of fired clay as a medium for information on inventory tablets, on which progressive numbering in binary code has been engraved.

3rd PRIZE to Teresa Sánchez Bravo - Cuba, with the work Némesis for the originality with which the artist was able to deal with the subject matter on a conceptual and technical level. The work of red clay, engobes and glazes mixes in its morphology the elements of many of the traditional functions of the ceramic material. It encapsulates utilitarianism in the evocation of pottery with the salient motifs of ceramic vessels and fragments "found" in archaeological excavations as an inseparable part of the formless mass. It is a form that touches the boundaries between the sculptural and the functional vessel given its organic structure.