Vein Mirror, 2023
On View during Alcova Project Space, Milan.
Available via shop.alcova.xyz
Glass, Silver
107 x 56 x 0.6 cm
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The mirror appears to be a metallic object but is in fact made of glass. Glass serves as a consistent element in Clara's practice, guiding her exploration of fluidity and permanence. The material becomes a stage where fleeting shapes are captured as intricate webs, framing the mirror’s reflection as unique interplays between distortion and definition. The hand-polished and silvered mirror fuses time-honored techniques with contemporary visions of seemingly digital interactions, which together create analog effects of collision and reflection.
Affin Sp.001 & 002, 2023
A collaboration between Emilija Povilanskaitė and Clara Schweers.
On View during The Alligator and the Bird at Kelderman en van Noort.
Krypton gas, Argon gas, Glass, pure grass, foliage, grapefruit, lavender, cedar-wood, musks, electrodes, transformer, PLA
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Delving into light, scent, and form “Grass Render” combines Emilija’s complex exploration of technology and olfactory installations with Clara’s practice revolving around the liquid aesthetics of glass and digital storytelling. Their work is inspired by natural weavings of grass that reflect on complex glass shapes. Together they explored the magical capacities of plants, natural elements and electricity - grass, moss, woods, and gases - enraptured within scents and plasma light. Through the collision of materiality and intangibility, “Grass Render” follows the power of sensory narratives and explores human-plant relationships.
Entangled Mirror, 2023
On View during Alcova Project Space, Miami.
Available via shop.alcova.xyz
Glass, Silver
53 x 37 x 1.5 cm
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The mirror appears to be a metallic object but is in fact made of glass. Glass serves as a consistent element in Clara's practice, guiding her exploration of fluidity and permanence. The material becomes a stage where fleeting shapes are captured as intricate webs, framing the mirror’s reflection as unique interplays between distortion and definition. The hand-polished and silvered mirror fuses time-honored techniques with contemporary visions of seemingly digital interactions, which together create analog effects of collision and reflection.
Affin SP.001 & 002, 2023
A collaboration between Delphine Lejeune, Kurina Sohn & Clara Schweers.
On View during Alcova Project Space, Miami.
Available via shop.alcova.xyz
Glass, PLA, Silver
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In a captivating interplay between the recognizable and the extraordinary, the "affin" series reveals stunning visual formats of otherworldly flowers. Together, the designers Delphine, Kurina and Clara harmoniously blend their visual languages towards redefining collaborative crafts. Blossoming 3d printed flowers and leaves that sprout upon translucent and molten stems made of borosilicate glass. Their artificial glass flowers are meticulous hybrids of both form and material. While emerging from digital landscapes, these unique pieces weave a narrative that is dazzling in its surreal purity.
The work reflects and reinterprets a selection of paintings and objects depicting lying, standing or sitting women found during multiple visits to the museum's archive. These poses were digitally manifested, elongated and distorted through the use of prefabricated motion libraries of computer generated stock bodies resembling the female figures as seen within the depot.
