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Ceramic Speaks in the Street by Daria Makarenko

An art series by Konstfack graduate Daria Makarenko combines public art and street art. www.makarenko-art.com

““I use street space as a free stage opened for discussions, argument, opinions, and lyrical remarks. My objects as urban interventions not only tag my presence at the particular place but also work together with the surrounding they are brought to. They fill up ‘missing-brick’ spaces, rebuilding the stone voids and exchange damaged elements. Bricks, wall stones, pavement panels and slabs: those are standardized objects, having the certain function and usage, ‘puzzle’ details constructing the architectural and urban environment. I want to follow the gradational process of ceramic, transferring from architectural element into
an object with the highly expressive and communicative power. I create my own bricks and stones, pavement tiles/slabs to use them as mediators between me and a viewer; to brought up and share my thoughts, written fragments, metaphorical statements, which together build up an achieve of our common communicative experience, which keeps space for personal interpretation.” (see attached photos). All objects were placed in street space of Stockholm (Sweden). With this project I was nominated for annual Vasakronan scholarship and got a special award “for playful and poetic interventions in the fabric of everyday urban experience, memorializing fleeting dreams in beautifully crafted ceramics.”