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Everyday battles, by Pepa Benavent
Ceramist Pepa Benavent transforms the tensions and emotions of everyday life into an exhibition of contemporary ceramics at “La Peixera”.
The Terracotta Museum of La Bisbal d'Empordà is hosting the exhibition Combats quotidians , by ceramist Pepa Benavent, until July 12. The exhibition occupies the "La Peixera" space, the museum's space dedicated to the reflection and dissemination of contemporary ceramics, programmed in collaboration with the Association of Ceramists of La Bisbal.
The title takes as a reference the series of graphic novels by Manu Larcenet, a saga that explores the small tensions and lessons of everyday life. From this starting point, Benavent proposes a journey through pieces that materialize in clay what is generally formless: the internal resistances, the frictions of everyday life, the silent victories and defeats that are part of the human experience. Ceramics, at once fragile and resistant, serves as a metaphor for human life.
Born in 1956 in Tiana (Barcelona), Pepa Benavent has been working with ceramics for more than four decades, combining craftsmanship, sculpture and installation. She began her training at the La Bisbal Ceramics School and the La Llotja Arts and Crafts School in Barcelona, and between 1984 and 1987 she trained in the potteries of the Iberian Peninsula, experimenting alongside the most renowned potters in Galicia, Salamanca, Andalusia and Portugal. Her career includes public sculpture projects in Catalonia, Asturias and Mexico, where in 2010 she participated in the construction of the collective work El árbol de la vida with artisans from Metepec and Oaxaca.
“And those who express themselves best are always them... the Sculptures that take on the forms of my Daily Combats.” - Pepa Benavent
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