TITLE: Fiasco, Gerla, Jarrah, Matka: Melting Pottery Special Edition

AUTHORS: Marco Bruno, Giovanni Innella, Yasmeen Suleiman, Steffi Braganza

DESCRIPTION

Fiasco, Gerla, Jarrah, Matka is a curated selection of Melting Pottery, a project that explores cultural contamination through the combination of traditional forms and materials with digital fabrication methods.

The four series of vases offer a contemporary reinterpretation of Italian, Palestinian and Indian archetypal elements. Fiasco is a glass container with a straw cover used in Tuscany to store wine and oil; Gerla is a wicker weaved basket used in the Italian Alps to transport on the shoulder different materials; Jarrah is a clay vessel utilized by Palestinian women to fetch water for the whole family; Matka is a clay container, decorated with minimal motifs, used to store water in Indian homes.

Each vase of the Melting Pottery collection is digitally fabricated and it is divided into two parts. Each part is interchangeable, generating infinite hybrid variations that well represent the cultural exchange that takes place daily in Doha.

The pieces presented during the Cluster exhibition feature a new seamless connection and an industrial glaze finishing that highlights the 3d printed texture.

BIOS

Melting Pottery is a project curated by Marco Bruno and Giovanni Innella and developed by the MFA Department at VCUarts Qatar.

Marco Bruno is an Italian architect and educator.
He teaches design at VCUarts Qatar and is the co-founder of MOTOElastico, a space-design laboratory based in Seoul and Doha.

Giovanni Innella is an Italian designer whose practice spans writing, teaching, curating, and design consultancy.
He teaches at VCUarts Qatar and contributes to both academic and non-academic discourse on design while maintaining an active practice.

Yasmeen Suleiman is a Palestinian designer.
She is the Head of the Materials Library and an Assistant Professor at VCUarts Qatar, where her work focuses on materials research and pedagogical innovation.

Steffi Braganza is an Indian multidisciplinary designer.
She holds a BFA in Graphic Design and an MFA in Design from VCUarts Qatar and currently works as a freelance designer.

EXTRA CREDITS

Digital Ceramist: Bruno Demasi, Claycode (Bruino, Italy)
Computational Designer: Andrea Graziano, Co-De-It (Torre Pellice, Italy)