Octet

September 17– October 30 | Opening: September 17, 4-7pm

JUDE PAULI

La Loma Projects is proud to host Octet, the first solo show of Swiss-born, Los Angeles-based ceramicist Jude Pauli.

Here, eight figures take the floor, transforming the exhibition space into a stage.

Each individual is in play with one another, but within each sculpture, a complex, multi-tiered system of balanced and interlocking forms differentiates itself from the group.

These works, comprising up to ten to fifteen separate parts, seem to challenge the physical limitations of a ceramic object. Resembling mechanical figurines, geometric petroglyphs or future primitive weathervanes, the viewer is torn between marveling at the mastery of each work's physical construction and the mystery of its form.

Through dedicated conversation with material, Pauli has transmuted the deceptively rudimentary clay body into a message from another time.

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