Zoe Keramea

Statement

In all my work I deal with the manipulation of surfaces; they are overlain, enfolded into themselves, cut or even tied in knots. I explore the play between surface and space.
I like to provoke the viewers to engage with the work and I encourage them to handle the work or participate in the making. Paper as an enfolded surface is the primary material; I use it to print, to draw, I fold it into 3D modular units which I sew together to form sculptural works, I fold it and cut it, and sometimes I make stencils for ceramics.
Many of the works can exist in multiple states and they can radically change according to how they are displayed such as leporello books, brainteaser limited editions or flexible modular sculptures.

Artworks

A limited edition multiple, consisting of twelve boxes, signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 100 each with 10 artist’s proofs. The ‘Boxes’ are depictions of twelve knots: six black on white, with six white on black mirrored pairs. These works shift between the two dimensional and the three dimensional. Once folded into boxes, they can be arranged like a tiling puzzle in many different ways; horizontally or vertically, using some couples, or all couples, or more than one set of twelve, to create different patterns. It is a play on symmetry and tiling, knots and topology.