Inner Landscapes: Rhythms of Persistence
Metal remembers. It holds the marks of heat and pressure, the echoes of cycles that shape both matter and life. Metalsmithing is anchored in patience, demanding we pause long enough for memory, emotion, and matter to settle into form. In our practices, metal is more than material–it is vessel, conduit, surface, and skin. It maps inner landscapes and mirrors bodily systems, recording the slow work of transformation.
This exhibition grew from a shared space as much as from shared themes. Working side by side as studio mates, we shaped our practices in parallel, listening to the same rhythms of becoming. Over time, our pieces began to speak to one another, their forms and surfaces carrying echoes through charged stillness. What began as individual explorations slowly evolved into a conversation in metal.
Our work draws equally from nature's resilience and the body's fragility. Landscapes, both internal and external, cycle between growth and erosion. Petal, pipe, vine, and skin; these currents meet at thresholds where the industrial blooms into the organic, exposing its quiet capacity for decay.
What emerges are objects that hold the imprint of their making–bruises, patinas, and ripples that reveal rather than conceal. Through these vessels, we explore grief, resilience, and interdependence, creating spaces where loss and renewal coexist. In the intertwined paths of two artists working side by side transformation is not an endpoint but an ongoing dialogue between body, spirit, and landscape.
-exhibition statement for Inner Landscapes: Tracing the Rhythms of Persistence, co-written with Fanni Somogyi