Several Architectural Variations
Piloto Pardo•Aug 05, 2025 — Aug 25, 2025
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Several Architectural Variations Gillies Adamson Semple has been travelling to Scotland to fire a series of ceramic works. The earthenware pieces were fired in both an industrial kiln and a homemade one. The shapes and forms of the works evoke some sense of structure that could be architectural, or in other words, suggest habitation. However, they don’t seem to arrive at a structurally suitable form. They are imagining architecture as a condition; precarious, partial, and often improper. Each piece offers a fragment or suggestion: rooflines without rooms, walls without interiors, thresholds that lead nowhere.
In this imagination, it is that we connect to a different element: absence. Earthenware particularly plays with the absence of a glaze or finish, and the several architectural variations propose a shuffling of possibilities outside functionality. This connects to Adamson Semple’s broader practice and interests, often involving picking up materials and moments from different sites…
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Several Architectural Variations
Piloto Pardo•Aug 05, 2025 — Aug 25, 2025
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Several Architectural Variations Gillies Adamson Semple has been travelling to Scotland to fire a series of ceramic works. The earthenware pieces were fired in both an industrial kiln and a homemade one. The shapes and forms of the works evoke some sense of structure that could be architectural, or in other words, suggest habitation. However, they don’t seem to arrive at a structurally suitable form. They are imagining architecture as a condition; precarious, partial, and often improper. Each piece offers a fragment or suggestion: rooflines without rooms, walls without interiors, thresholds that lead nowhere.
In this imagination, it is that we connect to a different element: absence. Earthenware particularly plays with the absence of a glaze or finish, and the several architectural variations propose a shuffling of possibilities outside functionality. This connects to Adamson Semple’s broader practice and interests, often involving picking up materials and moments from different sites…
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