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Résumé du livre

The second edition of the ceramics biennial features artists whose works speak not only to excellence and innovation in ceramics, but to its relevance as a discipline that allows for a specifically corporeal, embodied articulation of contemporary human experience. Works by Phoebe Cummings (Stafford, UK), Benjamin DeMott (Chicago, U.S.), Janet Macpherson (Toronto, Canada) and Meghan Smythe (Los Angeles, U.S.) is an inspiring, materially seductive exhibition. Indeed, there is something collectively subversive about their work - subversive in the sense of undermining staid narratives, restrictive tropes, or assumptions about our perceived reality. Each artist recognizes the historical heritage of ceramics, yet offers a highly original and imaginatively provocative vision. Curator and author Linda Swanson taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and currently teaches at in the Visual Arts department at Concordia University, Montreal.