Davide Ronco

Artist

www.davideronco.com

@davideronco

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The Journey of an Urn

Self-dug red clay. Handbuilding. 2023.

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Exhibitor’s text

The project opens up a conversation/critique about conservation and history throughout the digital world. A collection of urns made from self-dug high-fired clay where each urn is connected to two NFTs. One represents the urn’s past as its natural material before becoming an object: clay. The other represents its future as the permanence and immateriality of the urn as digital artwork. Once decided in which way to preserve the matter in one of its three forms, the other two must cease to exist.

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Keywords

Clay, conservation, artefact, urn, past, present, future, history, preservation, memory, immaterial, metadata, preservation, death, NFT, digital, physical, earthenware, symbol, provocation.