Ceramic mural Mix & Match by ceramic and visual artist Laura Pehkonen.
Mix & Match is a contemporary ceramic wall mural made specifically for Iceland´s annual design festival DesignMarch 2022.
The work is an abstract collage-like ensemble of unique hand-made ceramic relief pieces. Mix & Match was exhibited in Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavik during DesignMarch, May 2022.
The mural combines a wide variety of ceramic materials and techniques. Ceramic as a material is ancient and familiar to everyone: it has been used in various cultures for millennia. Laura Pehkonen creates unique ceramic parts from several different types of clay using numerous different ceramic techniques, both ancient and modern. Through the use of various materials and techniques she creates a kind of worldwide and temporal map of ceramics.
Many different shapes, surfaces, textures and patterns form in the work. The parts form diverse abstract compositions on the wall surface. With its sections, the work creates large lines that work from a distance. Perceived up close, the details of the ceramic pieces evoke in the viewer the joy of exploring and discovering.
An abstract work is equal to each of its experiencers: it does not exclude anyone’s interpretation but evokes personal imagery and a flow of consciousness in each experiencer regardless of viewer ́s age, gender or background.
photos: Rainy Siagian