About
The parts could belong to a flower, a coral or a body. Assembled, they settle as none of them.
Ayse Akdemir (b. 1994, Colorado, USA) is a ceramic artist based in Istanbul. She makes sculptures by hand in stoneware and porcelain, concerned with transformation, duality and the states between one form and another. Built without a wheel or mould, each work is assembled from individually formed petals, coils and tendrils, and the marks of pressure and firing are left visible.
Her forms draw on plants, sea life and the human body. She uses the structures of flowers, leaves, seed pods and corals as a visual language for ideas about growth, protection and change.
Across three series, the work moves from polished and carved stoneware surfaces held on one body, to closed forms with small openings into broken interiors, to thin white porcelain that opens outward. The resulting objects sit somewhere between specimen and body, like organisms still in the process of growing.
Ayse Akdemir
Born in 1994, Colorado, USA.
Lives and works in Istanbul.