Dissected ceramics

What's in a name?

With the introduction of the word ‘kitsch’, I lost a part of my unselfconscious gaze. My way of looking at things changed forever. Apparently, there was a word to define what isn’t art. But why, and who decides that?

My nostalgia for porcelain figurines remained, objects that remind me of the past. But where do they belong now? From these ambivalent feelings, a strange, fragile, yet meaningful family of jewelry and artefacts emerged. It always begins with a figurine, chosen intuitively: not for its beauty or flaw, but for its readiness to transform. Through decapitating, splitting and adding, a new form arises, an identity, perhaps even a function.