(Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico)(Ceramics, Multi)(Design Directory)2023-01-11
Uxi Studio
Uxi Studio's work is built within the failure and experience based on empirical knowledge and the endless exploration of the ceramic craft and its materials.
Uxi, is a graphic designer and self-taught ceramic artist. She was born and lives in Mérida, México.
Her work is built within the failure and experience based on empirical knowledge and the endless exploration of the ceramic craft and its materials.
The process usually starts by collecting the minerals from the ground without knowing their usability or functionality of it, to pulverize the stones later, analyze their qualities, and create new clay formulas.
The final work comes as an extension or fragment from the ground that emerges to create a utilitarian object or a sculptural piece in shapes inspired by nature, architecture, and local culture.
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Fernando Laposse
Fernando Laposse is a Mexican designer who has worked extensively with overlooked plant fibers indigenous to Mexico, such as sisal, loofah, and corn leaves to transform humble natural materials into refined design pieces
OHLA STUDIO
OHLA STUDIO works in union with artisans and localities steeped in centuries of craft and trade. They create individual, authentic evocations, both familiar and new, wrought from places we might have otherwise overlooked, wisened by the knowledge we might have otherwise forgotten.
PANORAMMMA
Panorammma’s poetics oscillate between disciplines while focusing on a crucial point of contemporary sensibility: the expanding pathology of the concrete, the alienation of everyday life, and the space that abstraction occupies in the social sphere.
