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VASUM draws from the Latin root of the vessel to reinterpret its domestic and ritual legacy through ceramic form.
Pushed beyond utility, these objects exist less as containers and more as presences: sculptural forms shaped through tension, balance and material resistance.
Working through a slow and rigorous process, each piece emerges from an ongoing dialogue with clay, surface and fire, where control and unpredictability coexist.
In opposition to productive acceleration, VASUM embraces silence, permanence and contemplation.
COLLECTIONS
Gisella Giampietro is a ceramic artist whose practice explores the vessel as a symbolic and sculptural form. Through a slow and rigorous process, her work investigates the tension between utility and contemplation, allowing material, surface and fire to shape each piece through both control and unpredictability.
Working primarily with ceramics, she creates objects that move beyond function, embracing silence, permanence and formal restraint as central elements of the work.