DYSTOPIA/UTOPIA Berlin, 2026
Contemporary Istanbul, The Trinity, Method, Istanbul, 2026
In MoonJar, choreographer and performer Kat Válastur and musician Aho Ssan created a poetic interplay of sound and movement, condensing into an intense, almost ceremonial performance. For this performance, I built a world drawing on ancient creation myths and the materiality of clay, where sculptures evoke wombs, alien flora and ambiguous relics, transforming the theatre into a resonant vessel. Images © Mayra Wallraff
MOONJAR HAU Berlin, 2026
RESSURECT Totems, Berlin, 2024
Working with a material like clay often evokes the vast history it has helped uncover, and in these realizations comes a recognition of time’s cyclical nature, making thinking about the future intuitive as it emerges alongside an effort to understand the past.
The following works have been constructed within speculative, science-fictional worlds, exploring how technology reshapes our environments, desires, and sense of belonging, while asking what we will leave behind and what will be carried forward. In this context, my work engages with ideas of transhumanism, gene editing, and data farming.
THE FUTURE IS FERAL 2025
POST ANTHROPOCENE 2022
The Future Is Feral (2025) and Post-Anthropocene (2023) continue a series of distinctive three-limbed creatures, at once animal, alien and ancestral. Drawing initially on Neolithic pottery (its rawness, its sacred functionalism, and the worldview of people for whom the natural and the spiritual were not yet separate), the series brings forth beings that seem to have always existed just beneath the surface, in forms both prehistoric and yet to come.
Their siren-like call evokes enduring memory and a longing for transformative reemergence. Their wildness speaks to the rewilding of the Earth, where nature is fertile and unencumbered, and to the rewilding of our imagination in the face of uncertain futures. Like shards of pottery, nature persists through collapse and transformation, not by nostalgic return but through radical evolution. These beings do not mourn; they triumph.
MODERN MUSCLE Tappan Collective, 2025
Modern Muscle explores the aesthetics and ideals of the contemporary body through abstract, playful ceramic forms. Evoking the sensual weight and presence of flesh, the works draw on modernist sculpture, fragmenting and isolating the body into dumbbell-like silhouettes that focus on posture, contour and muscular tension.
The process resembles refining a logotype: abstracting the body and working with negative space until anthropomorphic forms emerge and dissolve within fluid, shifting shapes. Each piece built in the coiling technique and gradually refined through multiple stages of surface work. During drying, the forms are repeatedly scraped back, sanded and burnished with pigments, creating a rich, leathery texture before the first firing.
ORIGINAL SOUP 2024
FOSSILS & FOLIAGE 2023-2025
A exploration that emerged when I decided to direct my practice away from ‘building around a cavity’ and towards a more organic language, allowing the material to flow. In these experiments, my mind directed my hands through clouds, cliffs, calcite terrains and fossils, and at times towards intangible dreamscapes. Expressing formless concepts such as emergence, transmutation and consciousness in form became an exciting inquiry, and one that continues to shape the cosmogony of my work.
VESSELS 2021 & ongoing
I place significant emphasis on exploring the expressive possibilities of the vessel form. It is where I began, and a place I continuously return to as my practice evolves. The sculptural vessels remain a consistent space in which to impose and expose ideas, refined extensively by the design sensibilities I was trained in. They expand the conventional concept of containment, becoming philosophical objects that hold no physical contents but circulate thoughts around them.