Between touch and remembrance, Rosana Erci listens to clay. Born in Brazil’s Vale do Ribeira and trained in printmaking, she has long been drawn to texture and time’s trace. In ceramics, she found the ideal ground to unite technique, memory, and invention, creating Contemporary Coilwork — a dialogue between tradition and experimentation.

Her process begins with fragile, thin slabs of clay, pressed with lace and crochet inherited from her mother, grandmother, and friends. These patterns carry quiet histories, impressed not only by the roller’s weight but also by the weight of memory. She fragments the imprints and recomposes them in irregular, organic forms, like recollections rearranging over time.

Colors are restrained — engobes, underglazes, and matte glaze — allowing form and texture to speak. High-temperature firing gives strength to works that still seem to hover on the edge of breath.

In each piece, past and present intertwine. The work is meditative yet alive, contemplative yet pulsating. “I shape the clay, but it also shapes me,” she says.

In Rosana’s hands, ceramics are more than objects: they are places where matter, memory, and emotion meet — and remain.