SOURDOUGH: Tales of Creation
"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 is a speculative cartography of the body. By invoking the logic of fermentation—a symbiotic alchemy of transformation—this project explores the architecture of bodily freedom, operating beyond normative structures to occupy a field of ambiguity and boundless imagination.
The sculptures are anthropomorphic archives, composed of fragmented and reconfigured elements that resist the stability of the singular form. The work navigates the terrain between the stable and the fluid, dismantling rigid definitions to map a plural, evolving identity.
The introduction of bespoke vestments transforms these entities from static objects into "lived" presences. This act of dressing is an exercise in performativity, asserting play as a critical space of subversion and intimacy. The work does not ask to be observed; it invites the viewer to oscillate between the individual and the collective.
Material & Process
The figures are materialized through high-temperature transmutation (cone 10, 1305ºC). Hand-built in stoneware and embedded with organic matter, the clay functions as a living vessel—imprinted with the traces of its own becoming. Each figure is completed by custom-made garments, cementing their status as singular, embodied beings.
PROVENANCE & COLLABORATION
• 2026 | Masa madre, Sa Bàscula Gallery, Manacor, Mallorca
• 2022 | Certamen d’Arts Plàstiques, Binissalem, Mallorca
• 2022 | Group Exhibition, Espai Joan Serra, Manacor, Mallorca
• 2022 | Group Exhibition, IncArt Festival, Inca, Mallorca
Collaborations:
• Bespoke garments commissioned from Ophélie Berton (@_ma_atelier).
