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HB381 is pleased to present an exhibition of ceramic wall works and sculptures by the artists Kirsi Kivivirta (Finnish, b. 1959) and Bente Skjøttgaard (Danish, b. 1961). The works by the two artists offer a study in the mutability of the physical world: its dynamic forces, its formal structure, and its underlying tension between complexity and dissolution.

In the ceramic constructions of Bente Skjøttgaard, we see the slow alchemy of minerals and glazes combined in the high-temperature crucible of the kiln. Her subjects emerge from loose, gestural coils and slabs of clay, which are left …