Kids love rules. Play a game with any five-year-old. And they’ll ignore the actual rules of the game but create their own
-James Victore
SOURDOUGH
Tales of creation
Sourdough is a symbiotic culture of yeasts naturally present in foods, such as cereals, responsible for the fermentation of wine and beer, and bacteria present in the environment. Traditionally it has been used to ferment bread, before commercial yeast existed.
Tale /teɪl/ noun
a story, especially one that might be invented or difficult to believe
Sourdough · Tales of Creation unfolds as a speculative narrative space where corporeality and play intersect. The project proposes an exploration of bodily freedom and creative expression, operating beyond normative structures and opening a field for transformation, ambiguity, and imagination.
Drawing on the logic of fermentation, the sculptural process embraces unpredictability and organic growth. Clay forms expand and shift in unexpected directions, resulting in anthropomorphic figures composed of fragmented and reconfigured body parts. These non-realistic assemblages destabilise fixed notions of the body, while questioning binary understandings of gender and reflecting broader contemporary searches for fluid and plural identities.
Through the act of dressing the sculptures, the work introduces layers of performativity and fiction, extending the body into a constructed presence. This gesture asserts play as a critical space and invites forms of interaction that oscillate between the intimate and the collective.
Materially, the sculptures are hand-built in stoneware clay combined with organic matter, often seeds. Embedded within the clay, these elements activate processes of growth and transformation, imprinting the material with traces of life and generating complex surface textures through firing. The pieces are finished with a Shino glaze developed by the artist and fired at high temperature (cone 10, 1305ºC). Each garment is custom-made, reinforcing the singularity and embodied character of each figure.
Clothes are custom made by Ophélie Berton @_ma_atelier
Masa madre project pieces have been shown at
Sa Bàscula gallery, Manacor, Mallorca 2026
Certàmen d'arts plàstiques Binissalem, Majorca 2022
Group show Espai Joan Serra Manacor, Majorca 2022
Group show at IncArt festival in Inca, Majorca 2022
