Juan Parada

The Brazilian artist Juan Parada (Curitiba, 1979) presents a series of ceramic reliefs developed from the tension between the digital and the ancestral. His practice—which he calls anti-ceramics—challenges the historical association of clay with manual gesture, pushing it to an almost impossible degree of geometric precision. The pieces vibrate between the mineral, the architectural, and the living, forming surfaces that seem to record internal waves, rhythms, and resonances.

His proposal conceives ceramics as an energetic and speculative field that articulates material memory and technological speculation, blurring the boundaries between the organic, the computational, the body, and perception.