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Ceramics as cultural memory

Ceramic objects are more than vessels. Their shapes and surfaces capture traces of the places, people and processes that produce them.

An everyday archive

For centuries, ceramics have accompanied ordinary routines. A bowl or vessel can tell us how people cooked, shared food, stored water and decorated their homes.

Moving between contexts

When a contemporary designer works with an established craft, cultural influence can become a dialogue rather than a quotation. In the work associated with Hend Krichen, this dialogue spans Tunisian heritage and modernist approaches to form.

The value of touch

Small irregularities remind us that makers are involved. The trace of the hand makes each object feel part of a living tradition.

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