Natasja Alers

When Natasja Alers is working with ceramics, she focuses on the body’s tangible presence and all its social and psychological implications. Among the many pieces she made at EKWC is the Nipple Vase, commissioned by Design Museum Den Bosch as a statement against both prudishness and sexualization. A life-size daybed connects to the body in a visceral image of physicality and limited consciousness. And in the kiln hall, a towering configuration of abstract bodies and bulges forms a sculpture that is both embracing and inviting to be embraced. Alers is well aware that we sometimes need some consolation.