òstraka : fragments

Fragments: Ceramic Bodies

The ceramic works of CCONTINUA+MAMT emerge as “imperfect bodies,” porous and mutable, carrying the memory of gestures. Amphorae, bones, and hybrid shapes become vessels of fragmented narratives: human and non-human, past and imagined. Openings, incisions, and porcelain bas-reliefs punctuate their surfaces, while pencil lines trace swan wings, sinuous curves, and two-headed serpents. Words repeat like mantras, carved into the clay as inscriptions once were on ancient òstraka — shards that bore collective memory. These forms exist in a state of perpetual transition, as if carried ashore by invisible currents, gathering the sediments of change, transformation, and rebirth.

Malleability: Investigation on Porcelain and Gravity

Expanding their storytelling into a volumetric dimension, the artists embrace a technique that preserves a sense of lasting malleability. The resulting forms appear to be in constant flux, resembling “unfinished” animal creatures—poised between becoming and dissolving. The porcelain’s surface treatment evokes its intrinsic softness, while the glossy finish accentuates the volumes, capturing an unstable equilibrium. These objects stretch balance and gravity, existing as open forms in perpetual transformation, always on the verge of movement.

Metamorphosis: The Decorative Layer

The drawings on the porcelain evoke a fluid interconnection between the human and natural world, where figures dissolve into plants and animals. These hybrid forms speak of cycles and return, existing in a timeless space with no clear beginning or end. Through this visual language, Òstraka reimagines ancestral narratives where species, myths, and identities merge, echoing the slow and continuous transformations that shape both memory and matter.