╳ Engaged since 2007 in The National Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowships Programme, Slotte seeks to answer the questions via her research project ‘Second Hand Stories’: “What do remnants of lived lives – photographs, clothes, utilitarian ware – have to say about us humans?” and “What role do the objects in our surroundings play in the creation of continuity in our lives, in the construction of a continuous life story?”
╳ A fellow disciple of materials’ manipulation and exploration, Caroline Slotte re-works ceramics by cutting directly into them directly, by sculpting and sanding, and by combining elements from different objects, and in this way, her process becomes a way of questioning the material and highlighting the stories embedded into the objects. Working with ‘readymade’ artefacts is not a new concept, Marcel Duchamp first championed this concept back in 1917 with ‘Fountain’, however Ms Slotte has added an ephemeral twist to her pieces to create ‘objets’ which serve up a poetic feast. ╳ Thread Count Lab admires and applauds her creativity. Her results are hauntingly poignant, and speak eloquently to the sense of loss and memory that old china often carries in our lives, as it sits silent and half-forgotten in the cupboard.
