'Earthen Dialogues'

Ceramics / Installation / Sculpture / Nature / Landscape

In Earthen Dialogues, Kiran Mahabali creates a sculptural landscape composed of raw, unglazed ceramics that reflect themes of impermanence, fragility, and material presence. The clay is left unrefined, revealing cracks, fingerprints, and natural color variations from the drying process traces that emphasize the connection between human gesture and natural transformation.

 

These sculptural forms engage in a quiet dialogue with their surroundings. Their curved, organic shapes resist the rigidity of modern architectural structures, suggesting a return to slower, natural rhythms. The work challenges our need for permanence, proposing instead that erosion and disintegration are essential parts of form and meaning.

 

By refusing to fire the clay, Mahabali allows the material to remain in flux, vulnerable, exposed, and always changing. Her practice embraces the natural cycle of return, suggesting that objects need not be preserved to hold significance.

PICTURES BY ROOS PIERSON