Mariana Castillo Deball's Stringing Beads features new ceramics and drawings that explore the fragility and instability of human existence. Handmade ceramic beads are woven into a convoluted, modular structure that draws comparisons between storytelling processes and craft methods. The artist contrasts this linear experience of time with the rotating movement of the potter's wheel: history both progresses and repeats itself. Her installation thus creates its own cosmos, addressing interruptions and breaks in the transmission of history and—as in the Tower of Babel—the cycles of construction, collapse, and reconstruction.
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