patrizia helene litty

art + now = contemporary art?

“I want to argue for a stronger claim: that the human living body is important for understanding not just the experience, but the work itself. Sculptures are a special kind of body, and we, as bodies, come to know them through our bodies.

Ingvild Torsen

Embodiment is an MFA series of figurative, partially abstracted clay polyptychs in the making that examines bodily “world-relations” through posture and contact.

accademia del giglio 2025

These sculptures were developed during my studies at the Accademia del Giglio, Florence (2025). The work set out to revisit a classical approach to figurative sculpture.

classical disruptions 24/25

is a sculpture series that cites the prestige language of classical form—idealisation, whiteness, monumentality—and interrupts it through colour, stylisation, and historical slippage.

folded continuum | 2024

These geometrically grounded works retain a strong organic character, where precision is softened by hand pressure, clay memory, and textured surfaces. A continuous turn is extended into volume: loops fold back into themselves and open a central void.

yin & yang| chess set | 2024

This ceramic chess set uses the logic of the game as a model for social relations, power, belonging and transcendence. The pawns—each unique pieces and individually inscribed—speak in the plural voice of community: we hope, we love, we laugh, holding Ubuntu as a field of shared desire, vulnerability, and support.