Shaping Perspectives: Ceramics in Contemporary Discourse

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About the artist: 

Zuzana Svatik (b. 1993) is a visual artist who works primarily with the media of ceramics, drawing and painting.

In her work, she critically re-evaluates the function and potential of applied art in the contemporary society – in addition to its aesthetic and utilitarian function, the value of a critical and engaged position is added.

She creates an opportunity for a dialogue with the outside world through the medium of ceramics; issues such as gender equality, stereotypes concerning masculinity and femininity, the theme of adolescence or the search for one‘s own identity often appears.

Her work reacts to the social and gender prejudices in the countries of Eastern Europe and depicts the influence of this environment and way of thinking on her art.

It reflects her impressions of society, people, personal identity, popular culture, social constructs, naming of the acceptable and unacceptable, the right and wrong. 

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Images and text courtesy the artist

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Images on view below:

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Caption 1: DON´T FORGET WHOS YOUR DADDY, 38 cm, porcelain, golden 

Caption 2: & OTHER STORIES, 57 cm, handbuilt glazed clay