Monika Piskorek
'Dangerous Labour'
This project stems from both a deep interest in maternal health issues and Monika's personal involvement in covering the issue of maternal mortality as a documentary photographer over the last 10 years. Using multiple hand thrown vessels, the piece presents itself as an abstract mural based on the latest World Health Organisation statistics on maternal mortality around the world and aims to raise awareness on the sheer number of women dying everyday due to pregnancy related causes as well as the striking disparity between the global North and the global South. With this project Monika is particularly interested in exploring the ways through which the ceramic object driven by a conceptual framework can become a tool for the dissemination of knowledge while displaying a strong association with the tradition of craft.
Material: volcanic terracotta