Kristin Opem:
Timeblomster

In her solo exhibition Timeblomster, ceramist Kristin Opem presents a series of handmade glazed ceramic objects. Opem has for years worked with the potter wheel for creating her jars in stoneware. Opem describes the artistic production as transcendent – in the end, the jar becomes a distinctive being with integrity. Time is crucial; the soft clay demands one’s full attention. When the process is successful, the final object holds its kind of presence.

Opem uses stoneware and fire oxidizing to 1 245 degrees Celsius. She applies several layers of glaze to bring out life and tension in the colors and surfaces of the objects.

The artist has great respect for her predecessors in the field of ceramics. She uses what she needs from tradition, sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously. The organic forms that appear often have a large relationship with the forms found in nature.

Opem spent one year of her studies in Iceland, which would prove to be of crucial importance to her.

The exhibition's title Timeblomster has Kristin Opem taken from the children's novel Momo, the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stolen time back to the people by German author Michael Ende.