Nadia Pasquer

"Nadia Pasquer’s work occupies a unique place in contemporary ceramics. Of absolute refinement and with an incomparable tactile sensitivity, her polyhedra—evoking celestial bodies and constellations—emerge at the intersection of different realms, at once physical, sensory and mental, exploring the tension between the near and the distant. Through no coincidence, these hand-sized objects engage with intimacy and space, geometry and sensuality, singularity and universality. The great strength of these works, their self-evidence, lies in the fact that the oldest and simplest techniques—modelling and polishing clay, the most intrinsic to ceramics—give rise to poetic forms that, beyond the field of ceramics, resonate within our collective imagination. One may even discern echoes of other forms, such as origami, whose spiritual dimension is often overlooked. Neither functional nor decorative, these “space stones” are instead objects of meditation, like meteorites that have travelled across the centuries separating us from Luca Pacioli and his figures of the Divine Proportion, or from Albrecht Dürer and the polyhedron in his Melencholia. They questioned the links between art and science, and the mystery of the universe.
Carole Andréani, journalist and art critic, July 2013.