Man’s most primal desire has produced so many fertility goddesses throughout history that we have perhaps forgotten more than we remember. Patrícia Jagicza’s solo exhibition evokes the altar of a fictional, or perhaps forgotten, idol. The identity of the faceless and nameless goddess is obscured, as her essence transcends cultural, geographical and temporal specifications.
Jagicza’s curvaceous and textured ceramics look back to prehistoric sculpture, icons and their symbolically exaggerated physical proportions, as she sensitively elevates the religion of primitive peoples to the level of fine art, or more precisely their ethnographic imprint. Yet her forms are contemporary, as her symmetrically multiplying arcs and members could be different stages of cell division under a microscope. Hovering between abstraction and figuration, her ceramics are all variations on a theme, as generations pass on the same DNA.