From Archive to Object

Navn

Agata Maria Kutniowska

Uddannelsesgrad

Professionsbachelor

Fagfelt

Design

Institut

Design, Produkt og Materiale

Program

Crafts in Glass and Ceramics

År

2025

Through a series of ceramic forms layered with photographic decals, this project explores memory as something tactile, emotional, and shifting. Combining clay, colour, and personal visual fragments, it reflects on how moments from the past can take on new meaning in physical form. Each piece becomes a quiet space for feeling and reimagining, where absence, texture, and image come together to hold something both personal and shared. Clay carries its own memory too, shaped by every step of the process.

By applying fragments of photographic images onto minimal ceramic forms, I aim not to preserve memory in a literal sense, but to reconfigure it, to work with absence, partiality, and abstraction. In this way, the act of forgetting is not a failure but a creative and generative space, allowing memory to be reshaped materially and visually.

Final pieces photographed by Mads Holm

In my practice I capture different urban compositions made by people and nature. I look for details, collect and translate them into design objects, like functional vases or abstract sculptures.

The forms I make centre around geometric shapes and clean lines run parallel throughout my work. I believe that the balance of angles and geometry lay the primal foundation of my aesthetics. Adding the imperfect human touch and infusing my experiences as surface details I archive my interests into a universally comprehensive object.

Ceramics, once fired, are permanent, this is what inspires me to make, and learn as much as possible while doing it. To be able to crystallize the way I see things into the material and constantly develop new ways of seeing, which are inherently timeless.