FRIEZE LONDON 2024
Roksana Pirouzmand and Karla Ekaterine Canseco
We are excited to announce our participation in this years Frieze London with a presentation of works by Roksana Pirouzmand and Karla Ekaterine Canseco. Our duo booth will also be included as part of a new ceramic section called 𝘚𝘮𝘰𝘬𝘦, curated by Pablo José Ramírez, which focuses on ceramic works that explore diasporic and indigenous histories. Curating a selection of 11 global artists working across themes of migration, memory, environmental collapse and colonial histories, Ramírez presents ceramics as a powerful means of connection to the soil and its life systems.
Karla Ekaterine Canseco’s sculptures are based on the history and mythology of the Xoloitzcuintli, an ancient breed of Mexican hairless dog that is believed to have been a gift from Xolo, the deity of death, to the indigenous people of Mexico. She incorporates metal elements and hand-formulated metallic glazes into her ceramics as she is interested in clay’s ability to carry information that has been passed down into the present, collapsing conceptions of time and holding stories in its composition and impression, like a cannibalization of touch.
Roksana Pirouzmand is presenting clay tablets that are painted with different colors of clay slip, depicting female bodies that are entangled with each other and with landscapes. These mountainous and volcanic forms at times could become other bodies as well. Painting on clay gives Pirouzmand the opportunity to bring depth by creating holes/caves that the bodies move into or in search of in a place that is not visible, suggesting contact between bodies in gestures that oscillate between peace, transformation, and sometimes in violence.
Karla Ekaterine Canseco’s sculptures are based on the history and mythology of the Xoloitzcuintli, an ancient breed of Mexican hairless dog that is believed to have been a gift from Xolo, the deity of death, to the indigenous people of Mexico. She incorporates metal elements and hand-formulated metallic glazes into her ceramics as she is interested in clay’s ability to carry information that has been passed down into the present, collapsing conceptions of time and holding stories in its composition and impression, like a cannibalization of touch.
Roksana Pirouzmand is presenting clay tablets that are painted with different colors of clay slip, depicting female bodies that are entangled with each other and with landscapes. These mountainous and volcanic forms at times could become other bodies as well. Painting on clay gives Pirouzmand the opportunity to bring depth by creating holes/caves that the bodies move into or in search of in a place that is not visible, suggesting contact between bodies in gestures that oscillate between peace, transformation, and sometimes in violence.
Roksana Pirouzmand
Roksana Pirouzmand
like a stream in the mountains, like lava in a volcano (1), 2024
Ceramic
15 x 15 x 1 in (38.1 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm)
Roksana Pirouzmand
like a stream in the mountains, like lava in a volcano (4), 2024
Ceramic
15 x 15 x 1 in (38.1 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm)
Roksana Pirouzmand
like a stream in the mountains, like lava in a volcano (8), 2024
Ceramic
15 x 15 x 1 in (38.1 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm)
Roksana Pirouzmand
like a stream in the mountains, like lava in a volcano (2), 2024
Ceramic
15 x 15 x 1 in (38.1 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm)
Roksana Pirouzmand
like a stream in the mountains, like lava in a volcano (5), 2024
Ceramic
15 x 15 x 1 in (38.1 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm)
Roksana Pirouzmand
like a stream in the mountains, like lava in a volcano (7), 2024
Ceramic
15 x 15 x 1 in (38.1 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm)
Roksana Pirouzmand
like a stream in the mountains, like lava in a volcano (3), 2024
Ceramic
15 x 15 x 1 in (38.1 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm)
Roksana Pirouzmand
like a stream in the mountains, like lava in a volcano (6), 2024
Ceramic
15 x 15 x 1 in (38.1 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm)
Karla E
Karla Ekaterine Canseco
First piercings. Carried by useless sincerity. When I still laid beneath I heard mothers whisper., 2024
Glazed ceramic and bronze
24 x 14 x 11 in (61 x 35.6 x 27.9 cm)
First piercings. Carried by useless sincerity. When I still laid beneath I heard mothers whisper., 2024
Glazed ceramic and bronze
24 x 14 x 11 in (61 x 35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Karla Ekaterine Canseco
Unspoken won’t be forgotten, 2024
Pátinaed ceramic, resin, bronze, steel
4 x 10 x 6 in (10.2 x 25.4 x 15.2 cm)
Unspoken won’t be forgotten, 2024
Pátinaed ceramic, resin, bronze, steel
4 x 10 x 6 in (10.2 x 25.4 x 15.2 cm)
Karla Ekaterine Canseco
To hold all at once and very little.
Parece bestia, cuchillo se apoya en mi gruta. Within oneself or between people, 2024
Glazed ceramic and bronze
14 x 20 x 14 in (35.6 x 50.8 x 35.6 cm)
To hold all at once and very little.
Parece bestia, cuchillo se apoya en mi gruta. Within oneself or between people, 2024
Glazed ceramic and bronze
14 x 20 x 14 in (35.6 x 50.8 x 35.6 cm)
Karla Ekaterine Canseco
Catalytic confrontation; two drops fall parallel to eachother, one sweat the other metallic. Both depart from my nose reaching to touch
Casi sin nombre, nothing new to quench…, 2024
Glazed ceramic, bronze, steel
50 x 20 x 20 in (127 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm)
Catalytic confrontation; two drops fall parallel to eachother, one sweat the other metallic. Both depart from my nose reaching to touch
Casi sin nombre, nothing new to quench…, 2024
Glazed ceramic, bronze, steel
50 x 20 x 20 in (127 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm)