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Prague, Czech Republic

Eva Pelechová

Ceramicist

Communicating through clay

  • Eva experiments with clay casting, mould making and glazing
  • She seeks to improve communication through the visual arts
  • She is part of an international ceramicists’ network

After more than six years studying at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, and residencies in Jerusalem, Tallinn and Munich, Eva Pelechová settled down in Prague. She opened her own workshop four years ago, where she experiments with casting different ceramic materials including shamot, diturvit, terracotta and porcelain, as well as multiple firings at different temperatures and building moulds. The objects she makes are assembled from cut or somehow destroyed elements, where the surface and inner structure are an integrated part of her visual expression. Sometimes she reuses leftovers, such as old vessels or found moulds.


Interview

©Tomáš Brabec
©Tomáš Brabec
When we look at your works, what do we see?
Actually, I don't know. I believe each of my works consists of the spoken and the unspoken. I want to expose the unspoken to the viewer's imagination. The visual vocabulary of the observer shapes the meaning of it.
Your work seeks to express personal and collective memory – how?
My creation process is connected to visual memory, the remembrance of smell or a tactile experience. How we remember and present history is modified by how we want it to be seen in the future. The viscous consistency of my materials is similar, allowing me to create a future memory of me, you, us.
What is your driving force?
The urge to communicate better. By improving my own language I’m able to understand more, be a better audience, a better tutor and a better creator. I believe that deeply mastering your subject improves communication within that field and may help you to understand other fields.
Why do you like to participate in symposiums?
It is a kind of theatre show; you experiment in the solitude of your own studio and then there comes a live performance – a symposium or residency. You can compare your own work with the outcomes of others and be part of the creative process of your colleagues.
Eva Pelechová is a master artisan: she began her career in 2011 and she started teaching in 2016

Where


Eva Pelechová

Address: Ondříčkova 23, 130 00, Prague, Czech Republic
Hours: By appointment only
Phone: +420 725656531
Languages: Czech, German, English
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