Sarah Pschorn

Lives and works in Leipzig, Germany

Artist statement

Sarah Pschorn builds three-dimensional collages from clay, porcelain and found objects. Her choice of durable materials is deliberate: clay and porcelain embody the conceptual ideas behind her practical work as they enable the artist to experience both the spontaneous sculptural gesture and the conservation of it. Sarah Pschorn thinks of her work as a statement in favor of sweetness and sentimentality. A playful discovery of the space in between joy and melancholia, it aims at getting lost in details and characteristics and thus negotiates the nature of impermanence. The vessels serve as receptacles for her ideas and thoughts. She combines historically familiar forms - especially from the Baroque period with spontaneous sculptural gestures and a distinctive individual language of form to create fulminant vessels of splendour. Her works question the current Zeitgeist and the value of materials. Sarah Pschorn In her works, Sarah Pschorn demonstrates an extraordinary understanding of ceramics as a material and at the same time an unconventional and artistically exciting approach to the material. Her sculptures are often reminiscent of vessels, containers or vases, which become the emblematic carriers of her ideas and thoughts. The artist balances and piles up her sculptures intuitively, quickly and yet carefully, exploring the limits of the material. Fragments, found objects and moulds are included just as much as historically known ornamental forms from the Baroque period or...

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