Image courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London
Julia Pfeiffer
Figures of the Thinkable
27 February – 6 April 2013
at Maria Stenfors, London
Opening: Tuesday 26 February 2013, 6.30 – 8.30pm
To think is not to get out of the cave; it is not to replace the uncertainty of shadows by the clear-cut outlines of things themselves, the flame’s flickering glow for the light of the true sun. To think is to enter the Labyrinth….
–– Cornelius Castoriadis
Figures of the Thinkable is an exploration of what has happened, what could have, and what should have, happened. Possible figures and forms are brought into being through the medium of clay and staged photographs, relaying, reminding, and echoing the movement from thought to laden physicality. The historical, conceptual, and literal weight of clay in all its changing states (elastic when wet, permanently changed when fired) shifts use from decorative to structural to functional, as well as disposed. [read the full text here]
Maria Stenfors
Unit 10, 21 Wren Street,
London WC1X 0HF
mariastenfors.com
Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday 11.00 am – 6.00 pm
Saturday 11.00 am – 3.00 pm
Or by appointment.