Eugenia Pop and Navid Nuur: 37 - 1270 °C

The exhibition brings together for the first time the clay and ceramic objects of Eugenia Pop with a selection of works and studies related to Navid Nuur's research and practice of clay firing and glazes. By using natural materials such as soil and various minerals, both artists access a pre-cultural era, a time preceding human existence and their urge to shape ceramics from the omnipresent, basic elements of earth and water. Spanning almost twenty years, from the 1990s to 2007, the series of ceramics by Eugenia Pop equals life with the oeuvre, in that she used to make a new work each day. Eugenia Pop's infinite string of small hills are an open territory similar to the recent experiments of Navid Nuur with glaze – a meta-matter, which is the result of a double burn, both material and internal, from the side of the artist. The works also mark the attempt of Pop and Nuur to accelerate and energize the world by exploring its core material through shapes that are an ongoing process in theory, while accepting the world as it is and always has been. This reveals the leap of faith that both artists invest their works with – the trust in matter irrespective of the uncertainties posed by the process and the potentially surprising results.