NATALIA GARCEZ

CERAMICS

✦ I do not make objects. I make room.

✦ Before my hands touched this earth, others shaped it. I work from that inheritance. Not to recreate it, but to continue it. To say: we are still here, we are still making.

✦ The wedging is not prep work. The centering is not technique. The firing is not process. Routine, done with intention, becomes its own language.

✦ Decolonizing demands plurality. It demands that we open the door, move over, make room. The work is better when more voices shape it.

✦ I am not here to produce. I am here to reclaim. To reclaim the material, the practice, the room itself. To make creation the act of belonging. Every time you use what I make, the work continues.

I grew up in Brazil, where clay is everywhere. I found ceramics in 2017, and since then the practice has moved with me — through Germany, Austria, and now Copenhagen, where I am currently based.

My work lives at the intersection of texture, shape, and memory. Each piece holds a conversation between material and heritage, between refined form and respect for tradition.

I work with art projects, communities, private clients, chefs, and restaurants — anyone who understands that the right object changes how a space feels, how a meal lands, how people gather.

I am also building a community studio in Nørrebro — Casa Gira. A place to open the door, move over, make room. Through workshops and memberships, I teach not as instruction, but as invitation into the ancestral language of clay, into new ways of belonging to oneself and to others.

Ceramics is art when more voices shape it.

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