Raw Dialect

Raw Dialect' is a series of experimental ceramic pieces which explores the behaviour of clay as a natural material with a rather unpredictable technique. Simona Skiriūtė has developed a technique which is based on a mobile composition of plaster panels, which is readjusted for the series. As clay is introduced to the composition, the materials communicate, creating a common 'dialect', which is shaped by the materials' collapsing, leaking in between the plaster panels or responding to pressure. 'Raw Dialect' is a material research which references the utilitarian architectural forms captured by Hilla and Bernd Becher—forms that are designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive. As a result, Skiriūtė's approach explores the raw aesthetics of brutalism in ceramics.