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Artist in Focus:
Céline Struger works with steel, water, and archaic ceramic forms. A Catapult Artist in Focus on myth, material memory, and the agency of sites.
The sculptures don't stage a conflict between past and present. What holds them is more slippery. She seems to work from the idea that a site's spirit does not dissipate when a building changes use or falls into disrepair, that it migrates instead into the objects left behind, into whatever material is willing to absorb it.
Artist in Focus:
Steel Carries What Clay Remembers
Céline Struger works with steel, water, and archaic ceramic forms. A Catapult Artist in Focus on myth, material memory, and the agency of sites.
by Dominique Catherina Foertig
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excerpt:
Ceramic heads, archaic in form, some braided, some rough as worked stone, are mounted on industrial steel. Water runs through the pipes that hold them or pools below in flat trays. The material logic is deliberate: Céline Struger places the oldest human gesture in form-making onto contemporary infrastructure, and lets water decide what comes next.
The sculptures don't stage a conflict between past and present. What holds them is more slippery. She seems to work from the idea that a site's spirit does not dissipate when a building changes use or falls into disrepair, that it migrates instead into the objects left behind, into whatever material is willing to absorb it.
Water inscribes time into matter without being asked. The pipe and the ceramic face are both, in that sense, archives.
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