Collection: Brian Vu

Over the past ten years, I have been moving constantly with the ceramics that I have accumulated. Pausing alone (for meals, conversations, coffee, sleep, and reading) is an action familiar with each new living arrangement, cycling anti-narratives. Plates, bowls, and cups maintain their importance to me as a ceramist. A cup leaves a circular stain on a table: it is picked up and placed down on the same spot again, and again. It is both intentional and involuntary. It is a consistent improvisation; repeating learned, improving mundane daily tasks towards an unconscious efficiency and intended function. I am interested in creating, utilizing props or stand-ins that reference the domestic household and the performance of daily functions that become emotionless yet still essential. My interdisciplinary ceramic compositions and performance work addresses the improvisation of memory with the mundane and domestic. Minimalism, Formalism, and Color theory are the forefront in the wry expression of my work; syntax over diction.

Objects, such as: ceramics, doors, tables, mirrors, bed frames interest me in their mundane functions. Over time, my perspective of these objects change from their intended functions or become functionless and sterile. Distinct references and rhythms become more abstract, minimal and analogous to each other, effectively queering the languages. Ceramic looks like steel or latex looks like ceramic. I aim to render ceramic and non ceramic materials in my work with equal importance. These compositions become ridiculous with imagined functions that then arrive at new intersectional, nuanced, complex, and formal conversations.

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