Laura Pasquino

Inward

April 12 - May 22, 2025

Laura Pasquino FOLDS 3, FOLDS 21, FOLDS 22, stoneware, stoneware and porcelain, from 18 cm to 40 cm

Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste in Toucy celebrates the arrival of spring with the first solo show in France of young artist Laura Pasquino.Born in 1987 in Tallinn, Estonia, Laura Pasquino lives and works in Amsterdam and gained recognition for her minimalistic and organic approach to ceramic sculpture. Her work highlights the natural beauty of the materials she uses, combining fluid forms and raw textures.
Laura Pasquino’s latest corpus, created for this show, displays a collection of some twenty sculptural pieces connected through their exploration of the form, fragility and quiet resilience of natural processes. With their inward-folding organic shapes, the sculptures tell stories of growth and self-reflection.

Exhibition catalogue
Laura Pasquino in L’OEIL
Biography

Laura Pasquino's aesthetic is based on duality. The sensuality of her curvaceous forms is countered by the brutality of a fracture, a tear that creates an irregular opening at the top of each sculpture, softened by the rounding of folds and creases. The artist creates no angles or edges, preferring to play with curves to create volumes that are more or less uneven, but always harmonious.
The shapes might resemble those of cups, bowls (the group of works entitled Husk), vases or spheres (the Folds variation). But imperfect, slightly unstructured, they are never quite what they seem at first glance. The expressivity of these pieces is born from their physicality, their density, their presence that is both powerful and light. The ceramist sculpts unidentified objects, and this is what gives them their strength and uniqueness. For her, clay is alive. It speaks to her, it listens to her. Each work is the result of an intimate dialogue with the material.

Guillaume Morel
Journalist and art critic,
Excerpt from the exhibition catalog