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Zein Daouk
Shiitake Cinereus, 2023
Material: Stoneware sconce with matte roseum pink lava glaze.
To Glow or not to Glow, that is the question…
The Shining Shiitake series examines the myriad of shapes and sizes and colours and species and lifestyles seen in the mushroom realm. It reveals the magical narrative between purpose and artwork. The works draw from the potent healing powers of the Shiitake and emanate their glow to nurture symbiotic relationships. The unique objects that grow from this experiment become functional sculptures that trigger an adventure into light and landscape. Always playful, colourful and perky these Luminaires bring morsels of the rich forest woodlands to uplift the quotidian.
Shining Shiitakes sprout to be admired as daylight shines its rays on the multitude of colours and textures they parade, and as the night falls, they display their amber glow and bathe their habitat in a glimmering lustre.
Zein Daouk | January 2022
Based in Beirut, Zein Daouk is a multidisciplinary architect with an obsession for creating & a passion for ceramics. Her work embraces the dialogue that links disciplines by highlighting the fluid narrative between function & sculpture. She explores form by working with the four Elements; flowing Water stretches shapes into the Earth, Air commits them to form & Fire becomes the founding act that brings them to life. A harmonious combination of biomorphic forms emerge & push the sculptural vocabulary until the form becomes something mysterious & new. These objects are playful and organic and come in joyous hues created by a time-consuming process of layering and firing multiple colors , but when encountered in person, it is their surprising fragility that stands out. Formed from a combination of hand building, slab work, coiling and wheel throwing, each one turns out, like the fungi they are based on, to be as light as air. At the essence of her craft lies an insatiable curiosity to learn.
| Dimensions | 15 × 15 × 21.5 in |
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| Artist | |
| Color | Gray |
| Date | 2023 |
| Exhibitions | Design Miami/ 2023 |
| Material | stoneware |
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