I'm building a container that holds my fifty years as a ceramicist.
A time travel in a cube. Transparency.
I model and sculpt. Handprints, touch, sensibility.
Different themes, perspectives in a time travel through space.
Everyday objects preferably in abstract combinations, equations.
No glazes but a porcelain clay that breathes in the room.
I am trying out different exhibition formats here because spatial design in all contexts is central to me.

The exhibition here at the Academy of Fine Arts is created in collaboration with the craftsman Pontus Lindvall. We have worked together on several different joint projects. Here he creates a display installation of archive shelves, recycled building materials and self-made lighting fixtures, all in dialogue with my exhibited objects.

The book, a work with the same title as the exhibition, is graphically designed by Lisa OlaussonThe book is a form of archival research but also includes project management as an artistic activity.

The dull thud
from a falling pine cone
to the ground in the endless melody
from the deep silence of the forest

(free from Osip Mandelstam 1908)

© Päivi Ernkvist/BUS 2023