Kira Fröse

Something happened in Kira Fröse’s EKWC studio, but what? Things started melting, their functionality impaired beyond mending. A ping-pong bat, a watering can, spoons… just the kind of ordinary items you might find in Fröse’s installations. But where she would previously amalgamate them with oozing, gushing, dripping, pouring liquids and nondescript blobs in arrested motion, she now targets the objects themselves. Certainly, there’s something hilarious about the way Fröse undermines reality – or people’s expectations – in warped pastel-hued porcelain. At the same time these distortions reflect everyday irrationalities that puzzle and sometime nearly derail her. What is the use of rules that no one abides by? In a side-project that quickly grew in relevance, she experimented with glass melting through the bottom of old enamelled pans, providing them with the most delicate but impractical feet. Who says you can’t work with glass in a ceramic work centre?