MARINA COLLARD
Eposides in Falling
A series of works based on destruction, fragility and impermanence. ceramics and text.
Ceramic containers balance precariously on ledges, shelves and at the bottom of the stairs, tumbling and spilling through the architecture.
Installation diffused throughout the lower two floors of the castle
Castello di Rocca Sinibalda
2023/2024
Pieces for Destruction
Pieces for Destruction includes live performance and video. The work addresses questions of excess, waste and labour as well as existing as a metaphor of our lives.
The performance spills from indoors to outdoors making passing people and vehicles participants in the work. The pieces are placed and balanced in precarious places which have an abundance of passing people and traffic. They are nudged off ledges, crushed underfoot or destroyed in other ways, providing a space for a new ceramic piece to replace the previous one. The act of placing the ceramic pieces is performed with gentle attention knowing they will be destroyed almost instantly when accidentally touched. The destruction is at times unnoticed and at times generates surprise in those who inadvertently observe the consequences of their ordinary actions.
Hand-made, multiple and imperfect ceramic pieces are reduced to sludge or rubble.