between earth and shadow

16 september – 18 october 2026

Kim Syoung — Moon Jars

Kim Syoung’s Moon Jars connect the physical qualities of clay with the quiet simplicity of a traditional Korean ceramic form. The vessels are shaped from earth and transformed through the processes of hand-building, drying and firing, leaving subtle traces of the material and the maker within their surfaces. The rounded form of the moon jar is traditionally created by joining two hemispherical sections, allowing slight irregularities and asymmetries to remain part of the finished object. Rather than striving for mechanical perfection, the form embraces the balance between intention and material unpredictability. Here, earth becomes vessel: a natural material transformed by human hands, yet never entirely separated from its origins.

Sumie Garcia Hirata — Isla Partida & Las Conquistas

Sumie Garcia Hirata’s photographs occupy the space between observed and constructed landscape. In Isla Partida, the photographic image is intervened with thread, introducing a tangible, handmade element into the landscape and disrupting the boundary between photograph and object. In Las Conquistas, Garcia Hirata similarly questions the apparent permanence of the photographic image, transforming the landscape through her intervention. Her practice treats photography not simply as a record of a place, but as a material that can be altered, mapped and reimagined. Landscape becomes something fluid — part memory, part observation and part construction — shaped as much by the artist’s intervention as by the place itself.

Hélène Binet — La Tourette & Heydar Aliyev Center

Hélène Binet’s photographs of La Tourette and the Heydar Aliyev Center transform architecture into a kind of landscape. Rather than documenting the buildings as complete structures, she isolates surfaces, curves, openings and shadows, allowing concrete and light to become the primary subjects. In the resulting black-and-white images, architectural forms can appear almost geological: solid masses meet voids, surfaces are shaped by light, and shadows create new contours across the structures.

Placed alongside the landscapes of Sumie Garcia Hirata, Binet’s photographs expand the idea of landscape beyond the natural world. Here, landscape is constructed — not only through architecture, but through the changing conditions of light, time and the act of looking. The building becomes an environment to be explored rather than simply a structure to be seen.

Abel Zavala — Spores

In Spores, Abel Zavala translates one of nature’s most delicate processes into ceramic. Inspired by the formation and dispersal of spores and by the plant life surrounding his home in Xalapa, Mexico, Zavala creates fragile, perforated structures from clay. Hundreds of openings interrupt the solid material, allowing light to pass through the work and giving it an almost weightless quality. The contrast between the permanence of fired clay and the ephemeral nature of spores is central to the work. What begins as an observation of biological growth becomes a study of material, light and transformation — earth taking the form of something designed by nature to travel, reproduce and begin again.