Sphere MOA-2022

Attuned to the intrinsic qualities of her ceramic medium, Spanish artist Yoyo Balagué’s practice embodies the core tenets of the Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy, embracing the inherent beauty of imperfections in organic materials. With great dexterity and humility, the artist engages with clay as a living material; she celebrates and emphasizes its nature with textured and unglazed surfaces. Subtle traces left by the firing process—cracks, variations, and elemental shifts—become poetic testaments to clay’s dual fragility and strength, evoking a quiet dialogue between chance, transformation, and form.