patrizia helene litty
art + now = contemporary art?
“In my practice, concept-led ceramics investigate how familiar shapes—such as a vase or a bowl—can be pushed to the edge of becoming sculpture: a vessel that explores meaning, carries a message, and sits on the verge of sculptural form.”
Is sculpture a matter of form, function, or the idea it carries?
a thread of connection | 2024/2025
This series asks what a vessel can become once its wholeness is interrupted. What becomes possible when a decorative pot is cut, broken, and reassembled—or built from disparate parts and clays from the outset? At what point does it shift from vessel to sculpture: an object with its own narrative and tension?
layered space 2023/2024
The layering holds space as an active material: sometimes open as a vessel, sometimes sealed, sometimes staged with small figurative forms at the rim of emptiness. In some works the circles break, erode, and fall away, leaving the loop interrupted—an insistence on fragmentation rather than closure.