Vera Kox

Vera Kox reflects on the human impact on post-industrial ecologies in her sculptural practice. She acknowledges the inherent autonomy of various materials, with a focus on ceramics. In her work, she challenges the classical concept of sculpture by replacing preconceived ideas of monuments with seemingly soft materials, horizontal compositions, and transformative natural environments. Her work is characterized by the shift from an anthropocentric perspective to a multi-species worldview. Currently, she focuses on extreme climatic landscapes, where she explores the limits of material transformation and the traces left by ecological collapse, highlighting the ongoing dialogue between destruction and renewal. Through rigorous experimentation, in which she alters, stretches, and compresses the significance of matter, she reveals contemporary fossils of our modern, materialistic reality.