Priscila Leonel takes clay and argil as a way to redeem her ancestrality on african-brazilian contemporary pottery.
Argil, a very common material in her atelier, is a very specific type of clay, that turns into ceramic after a process called “queima” (burn), in which her dolls stay on a stove that can get to 1280 °C for 12 hours.
Priscilas’s metodology to paint the dolls is very intuitive and the colors are put on the sculpture before the “queima”, and can have imprecise shades.
Her ceramic dools have souls and memories. They are unique pieces that contain echoes of a collective, but catch attention for their singularity.
