Residency: September 22th –30th
Exhibition opening: September 30th, 7p.m
The residency in Chillán proposes a crossover between territories, sensitivities, and material memories. For fifteen days, Argentine artist Leo Battistelli– one of the great contemporary ceramists, based in Rio de Janeiro–will share knowledge, techniques and processes with Nayadet Núñez, a renowned artisan from Quinchamalí, the traditional epicentre of Chilean ceramics, notable for the singularity of its black clay and an iconography deeply rooted in rural history.
This exchange does not stem from an extractive logic or from a univocal translation purpose, but rather from a mutual desire to embrace the uncertain: not only the possibility of creating together, but also of learning and transmitting methods that have been passed down for generations. In this sense, ceramics is not just an artistic practice, but also a craft, a collective language, and a way to preserve a relationship with the environment.
Although the project may eventually take the form of an exhibition, this is not its primary purpose. Rather, it is intended as a form of creative hospitality: a space and time in which people can experience commonality without the need for homogenisation. In this space, ceramics serves as a lingua franca for exchange, imagination and collaboration.
Image: Nayadet Núñez