Ahia Canna, an artist and researcher specializing in ceramic materials, explored the dichotomy between his identity as an artist and the perception of ceramics as a craft. He questioned whether the historical tension between craft and art persisted. At The Lab, unburned ceramic balls hung unsteadily from the ceiling, their fragility threatening to drop from the dryness of their form. The exhibition's title lay engraved within these balls, visible only through their shattering.
Masses of small ceramic balls outlined the shape of Ahia’s body, cut onto a flat wooden plate, accompanied by a reverse video work depicting the artist breaking one of his own pottery vessels. This juxtaposition of destruction and creation, the materiality of time, and frustration in an endless loop were among the dualities that defined the central inquiry of the exhibition.

Photography: Ahia Canna.