UNRAVELING

UNRAVELING is the first collaboration between fiber artist KAT HOWARD and ceramicists Benedicte and Jerome  Leclere of L’IMPATIENCE. 

UNRAVELING is a conversation about the conflict of attraction and repulsion through the lens of two contrasting mediums: fiber and clay. This collection of works is centered around a cruel tension that resides undetected at first look, manifested through thousands of interwoven linen threads that bind and pierce scarred ceramic bodies. Existing as bound forms, they emulate the feeling of bodies being overpowered and contained.

TETHERED by Benedicte and Jerome Leclere in collaboration with Kat Howard

There is the raging violence that exists beneath this hushed and latent spectacle, harboring a relationship most definitely turbulent. The two materials attract and repel each other, they need each other to exist in this dark co-dependency resulting in their brutality being exposed. What happens to the body when it is forced to become a vessel for trauma? In what ways do we physically carry pain? How is the self altered afterwards?