UNIQUE CERAMICS ANJA SLAPNIČAR

The scene shows a composition of handmade ceramics and a vase filled with sculpting tools and green leaves.

A room, in the centre of which there is a wooden table decorated with ceramic bowls, surrounded by wooden shelves displaying ceramic objects.

Two handmade ceramic figurines of a deer, standing in between the branches of a conifer tree.

Wherever Anja Slapničar may go and wherever her feet may land, she finds and collects clay and rocks. She sees the gathering of clay, which is in her and drives her,
as a tool for obtaining the raw materials that are the building blocks of her work, i.e. the creation of functional ceramics. In doing so, she also creates a fingerprint (a fingerprint of the soil) of the site she has explored by making pottery that we touch and feel in our everyday lives. She also fires clay with wood. Wood-fired ceramics are transcendent. They follow the rock cycle where heat melts the fragmenting particles – the clay – back into a rock-like material.