Patricia Camet

Subtlety, commitment, and freshness characterize the work of this Peruvian artist born in New York. As an "archaeologist" of the present, of a civilization governed by hyper-superficial consumerism, Patricia Camet creates a language from packaging. Diverse and varied, non-recyclable, all collected from the heart of the Amazon rainforest, these are the plastic casings of our earphones, scissors, pills, and other household gadgets that the artist has gathered and sanctified. Transformed into ceramics, they now form luminous compositions that, through their apparent tenderness, initially dispel any tragic dimension. By highlighting expressions, smiles, and tears on these relics of our material culture, she poetically mocks the trivial and universally widespread language of "emoticons." However, Patricia Camet’s work is not moralistic; it calls upon all the plasticity and communicative potential of ceramics—its clarity and softness—to convey a message with universal resonance.