Collection: Giulia Forgione

(Bordighera 1988)

Giulia Forgione is a ceramist and anthropologist who works with local clays, rocks and waste materials.
The search for materials in nature happens slowly, on foot in the woods, among small streams and up the hills, just as his ceramic making is slow. A production possible only after numerous tests and experiments that take into account the infinite diversity of the properties of the materials. High temperature firing allows to obtain durable and resistant works and, at the same time, to observe a correspondence between the ceramic process and the phenomena of rock formation that occur inside the magma chambers, the feeding basins of the volcanoes.
Just as natural phenomena never reproduce themselves identically, producing ceramics with locally collected materials means learning to accept a wide margin of variability: everything changes and nothing can be reproduced identically.