EQUIVALENCE
Corvi-Mora gallery
9 November – 21 December 2018
From rites of passage to the daily touch of a cup Julian Stair’s work celebrates the dynamics of use and how ceramics are integral to human experience. Julian’s recent solo exhibition 'Equivalence’ at Corvi-Mora gallery, London (9 November – 21 December 2018) considered the domestic vessel as an object of pure, abstract form. Pots have always been multivalent: archetypal, dynamic, sensate. By scaling up these domestic familiar forms a new experience of the original is created and the viewer is challenged to identify the elements that constitute the existence of the vessel. “If people can accept that the small vessel performs its everyday use while also being sculptural, then I will have achieved my aim.” (Julian Stair)
photography Marcus Leith and Jan Baldwin