Nora Arrieta: Selected works, 2021-2024
In my work, I examine the emotions and consciousness that surround us in the 21st century: the assimilation of the experiential and the fantastic in real and digital spaces, global mobility and the constantly growing sensory overload of information and consumer goods in an unmanageable network of apps, images, daily news and trends. These aspects of contemporary consciousness have led to a mystification and transfiguration of the environment, a consciousness that has long since become accustomed to the inexplicability of technical entities, the overstraining of the senses and the juxtaposition of history, fiction and reality in everyday life, while still striving for a romantic nature that has long since been lost in its naturalness. However, I also infiltrate these experiences and assessments with humor and irony in order to perhaps also portray this discrepancy between playful joy and dystopia.
My pictorial worlds thematize these interactions and paradigms, drawing on models from the Middle Ages, the Baroque and the magical realism of ceramic works from early high cultures. They are sustained by fired and colored glazed clay, which is intended to transfer and preserve them into a lasting material and cultural memory of our time. The glaze functions as a material and metaphor for emotional states; the viscosity, the flowing surfaces and the color can be read psycologically and serve as a reference to shimmering screens with fluid information.I also use newer techniques such as ceramic 3D printing or photo transfer to incorporate aspects of the digital and the reproducible into my works.
Captions
- Island of the Death, 2024, glazed stoneware, porcelain, glaze, photo decals, gold luster, 87x73x74 cm. Photo credit: Helge Articus
- Oldenburgica, 2024, glazed stoneware, photo decals, two cell phones, 46x41x37 cm. Photo credit: Nora Arrieta
- Sharks, 2024, stained, glazed stoneware, porcelain, 14x16x10 cm. Photo credit: Nora Arrieta
- Bratwurst Goldtree, 2024, stained, glazed porcelain, gold luster, photo decal, 13x14x14 cm. Photo credit: Nora Arrieta
- Liver Sausage, 2024, stained, glazed porcelain, 8.5x11x10 cm. Photo credit: Nora Arrieta
- Deep Fried Chicken, 2022, glazed stoneware, 20x24x24 cm. Photo credit: Nora Arrieta
- High Beam, 2022, glazed stoneware, porcelain, 29x40x22 cm. Photo credit: Nora Arrieta
- Night Trip, 2021, glazed stoneware, photo decals, 143x112x115 cm. Photo credit: Helge Articus
- Blossoms, 2022, glazed porcelain, photo decals, 36x27x29 cm. Photo credit: Nora Arrieta
- Memory, 2022, glazed stoneware, photo decals, 65x52x38 cm. Photo credit: Nora Arrieta
- Whispering, 2022, glazed stoneware, photo decals, 55x120x87 cm. Photo credit: Nora Arrieta
- Gardener, 2023, glazed stoneware, porcelain, 30x30x10 cm. Photo credit: Natalie Bleyl
- Sneaker, 2022, glazed stoneware, porcelain, 23x8x23 cm. Photo credit: Natalie Bleyl
- Orbit, 2023, glazed stoneware, photo decals, 30x39x20 cm. Photo credit: Natalie Bleyl
- Reel, 2023, glazed stoneware, photo decals, gold luster, 110x47x40 cm. Photo credit: Natalie Bleyl
