Eva Spierenburg

Although Eva Spierenburg meant to explore the relation between landscape and body, the latter seems absent from the drawings she made in Iceland. And yet, it is there. The landscape became inverted, transformed into the sphere of a body’s interior. At EKWC, she sought to translate these drawings into ceramic tableaus – but while she was still figuring out how to paint with glazes, she discovered the settling tank with its fascinating colours of pigments and clay residue in water. Inner space reverted back into an open landscape of glistening mud and minerals, a primordial world where life originates. While some details evoke intimate images of a woman’s anatomy, they remain dunes and shells, stressing the analogy between Earth and the body. Don’t let that distract you though. In these works, Spierenburg reinvigorates a physical imagination that stretches back from contemporary Gaia philosophy to ancient myth and mystery, into prehistoric times.