The project Traces of Life explores memory as a fragile and material structure that emerges from the traces of everyday life. It is based on imprints of ordinary objects connected to my personal experience: fragments of daily life, care, consumption, habits, and repetitive actions. Transferred into thin, translucent porcelain, these forms lose their utilitarian function and begin to exist as fragile evidence of a life lived.
I am interested in how personal memory is formed not only through major events, but also through the almost unnoticed traces of everyday existence. Porcelain becomes an analogue of memory: it is able to retain the smallest details, while at the same time remaining fragile, vulnerable to deformation and disappearance. Lighting from below makes the textures visible, gives volume to the objects, and transforms them into something resembling archaeological finds, phantom images, or negatives emerging from half-forgotten experience.
This is my attempt to preserve personal experience in a world of instability, things slipping away, and fragile forms of existence.
The project is displayed on nine wooden structures with light panels that illuminate the porcelain from below and allow the viewer to see the smallest details. The objects resemble yellowed negatives from old film that can only be examined when held up to a source of light.

Porcelain | from 12 to 40 cm | 2023