Gaspar Gorodisch
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Broken pots - The exhibition
A Bunch of Broken Pots
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Romper es parte del proceso
About
Broken pots - The exhibition
A Bunch of Broken Pots
Lo que sale del fuego
Ceramics
Photography
Shop (coming soon)
Studio A
Contact
Mailing list
Broken Pots
The exhibition - by Pith
The evening includes a screening of the short film A Bunch of Broken Pots, directed by Macarena Rubio, and a conversation immediately after. The film follows ceramic artist Gaspar Gorodisch and his relationship with instability, breaking and clay.
Programme
18:00 · Doors open and drinks
18:30 · Screening of A Bunch of Broken Pots
Straight after · Gaspar in conversation with Liam Goward, co-founder of Pith, moderated by Guadalupe Alvarez
Free entry. RSVP to join us for the opening.
This exhibition is a ceramic installation by Gaspar Gorodisch, the physical representation of the narrative short film by Macarena Rubio titled, A Bunch of Broken Pots, which explores Gaspar’s autobiographical relationship with instability, breaking, and clay. In offering the pieces up to ‘the divine gift of breaking’ Gaspar allows the vessels to 'meet fragility’.
Gaspar’s work balances the tensions between standing and falling, questioning how far he can push the clay before it stops holding itself together. It is a dance that plays with the limits of what clay can do. The wire and clay caricature pieces represent the imaginative mind; picturing what once was, what is, and what could have been. The larger disrupted vessels, placed precariously on tall plinths, record their own story of resilience, stitched together after breaking.
At its core, Broken Pots explores the sensation of breaking as an unfolding inevitability that occurs and reoccurs; time and time, again. In the body and in the mind. This exhibition accepts brokenness as a beginning, and asks what it truly means to be (a) Broken (Pot). Sometimes, in the depths of brokenness we are forced to pause, sit, and dwell with the Broken. Here, the quiet moments in breaking are allowed to become loud.
The works are arranged to evoke precarity, caught between a fear of falling and its familiarity.
There is a comfortability in returning to Broken Pots.
Texts: Alice Hayes
Exhibition dates
23 to 26 October
11 am to 6pm
11 Caledonian Road, N1 9DX
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