Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Against Interpretation, 2018, Clay, glaze, concrete, 52 x 56 x 55 cm
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Banderas, 2018, Clay, glaze, 27 x 25 x 52 cm 
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Cascajo, 2018, Clay, glaze, 38 x 64 x 29 cm 
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Cave Canem, 2018, Clay, glaze, 40 x 52 x 23 cm 
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Chest Muscle, 2018, Clay, glaze, 34 x 29 x 28 cm 
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Emerger, 2018, Clay, glaze, 47 x 56 x 31 cm 
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Las Cosas Temidas, 2018, Clay, glaze, 51 x 39 x 25 cm 
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Y Cuando Despertó su Brazo Seguía Ahi, 2018, Clay, glaze, 18 x 39 x 16 cm 
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Tracheotomy, 2018, Clay, glaze, 21 x 22 x 22 cm 
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Secret Garden, 2018, Clay, glaze, gold leaf, 15 x 25 x 18 cm 
Renata Cassiano Alvarez, La Extraordinaria Devoción de la Sagrada Cabeza, 2018, Clay, glaze, gold leaf, 21 x 29 x 24 cm
Renata Cassiano Alvarez: Un Venado Llamado Sacrificio / A Deer Named Sacrifice, 2018
In this series I conceive selfhood as an inner sinew, a cultural connecting tissue engulfed by experience, place and time and encased by the skin of memory. In the sculptures, glaze takes the place of flesh and blood, activating the piece which by the ceramic process becomes a sentient being. This entity contracts and expands, breaths, moves and gestures; sometimes the energy within is so vivid that it bursts out, ripping through the clay skin. By cutting into them, like an archeologist of the sinew, I begin to understand the transformations within, the defined but most importantly, the undefined.
Photos courtesy of the artist
