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Emily Orta, Lady Scalentrails

Emily OrtaLady Scalentrails, 2023

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About the artist

(b. 1999, Paris, France) is a self-taught British-Argentinian ceramicist, born and raised in Paris. Her work is concerned with the fragility of living organisms and systems. Orta deliberately blurs the lines between animate and inanimate, real and surreal – crafting ambiguous sculptural forms that invite viewers to ponder the complexities of existence. Orta has diverse influences - among them, her artist parents, and her previous work in fashion. Her intuitive act of sculpting clay captures the intricate beauty of life and the promise of the possibility in the unknown. In doing so, she invites observers to explore their own relationships with the natural world, and to contemplate the evolving and mysterious tapestry of human existence. Orta has developed a unique personal language, grounded in the process of making. She pushes the technical boundaries of the medium through the creation of her own glazes, and a rigorous - and somewhat unorthodox - glazing and firing process, blurring the lines between tradition and experimentation. Her ceramics stand as eloquent expressions of the beauty found in ambiguity.

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