Loin is a ceramic work formed by fusing two plates into a single, inseparable object.
The work originates from the gesture of setting aside food for someone expresseing care and anticipation, while simultaneously marking absence and loss. The plates and the food are conceived as a single entity—a form that can be moved but not divided, except by the person for whom it was intended. In this way, the work sustains a condition between offering and withdrawal, presence and absence. Through this gesture, the works reflects on how memory is embedded in everyday actions, and how meanings persist, shift, and accumulate.
After a series of private encounters in a cloistered convent, I commissioned the nuns to transcribe in calligraphy” five texts that I wrote about the end of a marriage. I had entrusted this commission to the nuns following an ancient tradition, but also with the intention of anointing my words as an atheist, against lack of communication and religious discrepancy. This action was a personal compromise to exploit my communication.
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