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Edmund de Waal
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Until 22 July
For many years, Edmund de Waal’s practice, as both a potter and writer, has explored questions around the perception and presentation of ceramics, from the mass-produced items in everyday use to the nature of the handcrafted one-off object. For this solo show at Kettle’s Yard de Waal has extended his study of the relationship between pots and the buildings they inhabit through the creation of a series of site-specific installations which respond to both the white cube space of the gallery and the domestic scale of the house with its permanent collection. These installations are populated by de Waal’s characteristic repetition of simple, cylindrical, porcelain forms, each one slightly different, marked or distorted in the processes of their production. This repetition is used to greatest effect in the installation A Change in the Weather which consists of 365 pots, one for every day of the year, each one almost imperceptibly different.
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