活着 Huózhe | To Live, 2025

Ceramic, found wooden tables

The knitted garments come from secondhand shops that sell clothing by the kilo. Sold by weight, not by name, each garment was once worn close to a body I will never know. I dipped them in ceramic slip and fired them in the kiln. The fabric burns away, leaving a hollow ceramic shell. In the mourning practices I grew up with, garments or paper representations of them may be burnt as offerings for the dead.

KPN Telephone, The Hague, Netherlands, 2025. Photo: Linards Platacs