Altered States: Anne Marie Laureys and Costanza Gastaldi is on view at Taste Contemporary, Geneva
November 13, 2025 – January 14, 2026
Taste Contemporary is proud to present Altered States, a two-person exhibition of new work by Anne Marie Laureys and Costanza Gastaldi.
Anne Marie Laureys’ clay sculptures begin their journey as thrown pots, but while the material is still soft, it is pushed, kneaded and reshaped into new bodies. As the final form emerges, traces of touch still remain visible; clay turning into skin as vessels spiral and fold back on themselves. Her forms carry the memory of hand and movement. Never fixed, they are always becoming. Costanza Gastaldi’s images reject the accuracy of form, but question the resistance and plasticity of reality. Jellyfish appear not as motifs, but as suspended bodies, a contact between the living and the formless. Tangible, yet elusive, her photographs, created employing both analogue and heliogravure print processes, capture a state between memory and perception, between presence and disappearance.
In the exhibition Altered States, ideas within both practices are brought into dialogue with each other as each artist invites us into a space where forms are fluid, unstable, and metamorphic. The exhibition evokes a condition in which bodies and images appear still, yet remain intensely alive, as if caught in a state of constant inner motion. Sculptures and images appear still, yet remain intensely alive, as we enter a world where matter is shifting, dissolving, and is perpetually remade. Anne Marie Laureys’ vessels are recognizable and strange at the same time. Like nocturnal visions, they follow a kind of dream logic, while Costanza Gastaldi’s images exist in a place where the boundaries between perception, sensation and memory dissolve. Matter in Motion is accompanied by an original sound creation by composer and DJ Luigi Tozzi. Known for his atmospheric compositions, his sound intervention acts as a liquid echo, particularly for Costanza Gastaldi’s images; it follows their rhythms, prolongs their silences, and reveals their subterranean dimension.
About Anne Marie Laureys
Anne Marie Laureys thinks of her ceramics as metaphors for feelings. She starts the process by throwing a classic, symmetrical pot. While the clay is still soft and wet, she pulls, folds, pinches and punctures it. The tension of the clay underneath her fingers dictates the way the folds take shape. Her pieces have a spontaneous, unplanned quality but in reality, she takes her time to find the shape of a vessel, remoulding and refolding the clay over and over again until it speaks in her unique voice. No two works are ever the same. Her ceramics are renowned for their sense of excitement, freshness, and tactility.
Anne Marie studied at LUCA School of Arts, Ghent. Her work can be found in private collections internationally and are included in the official collections of the Province of Hainaut, Belgium, The Taipei county Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan, The Arts and Crafts Museum of Shanghai, China, the Keramikmuseum, Westerwald, Germany and most recently, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA. Anne Marie Laureys lives and works in Belgium.
Contact
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Taste Contemporary
7, Rue du Vieux-Billard
1205, Geneva
Switzerland
Captions
- Installation views by Ruth Ward
- Images of individual works ©peterclaeysbelgium
