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  Project                                    Type                                         Year

    (W)aardawerk                          Exhibition                  (coming soon)
 
  Alluvial Grounds                     Material Research                  2025


   Slipcasting with Wild Clay     Workshop                              2025

  Collectible Bruxelles              Exhibition                               2025
 
   Alluvial Ground
Alluvial Grounds explores the ecological, cultural, and political dimensions of wild clay in the Netherlands through foraging and field investigation. Grounded in the belief that harvesting can be a form of activism, the project examines how local clay practices reveal broader dynamics of land management and resource extraction while advocating for more caring and situated approaches. 

Historically used to build dikes and polders, Dutch river clays embody the Netherlands’ ongoing negotiation between land and water, a continuous reshaping of the landscape carried out through extractivism and human intervention. 
 For this project, different types of clay have been foraged from quarries, river floodplains and brick factories, then processed entirely by hand before being slip-cast into custom molds.
This low-impact method minimizes industrial intervention and re-establishes a direct connection between craft and local, naturally occurring resource.
   
Developed in collaboration with Crafts Council Nederland, Alluvial Grounds will be presented within (W)aardewerk at De Fabriek, Eindhoven, during DDW 2025. The exhibition addresses urgent questions around material extraction and ceramic production, exploring sustainable future perspectives.
    Photography:
    Antonia Aschenbrenner