about the artist
Caroline Bertram is a visual anthropologist and ceramic
artist based in Berlin, Germany. She is drawn to clay because of
its plasticity, tactility and intimacy within our daily
lives. Inspired by the body as vessel, she draws upon the
materiality of clay to explore expression and
communication in ceramic form. Her sculptures are
timeless morphs which seek to engage with the viewer by
tapping into the consciousness of what is known/
common/familiar, while also tickling the curiosity towards
the unknown/alien/weird. Drawn to more abstract
references to the anthropomorphic as well as non-human
life forms, her pieces incorporate communicative
elements that are an inquiry into me and you, us and
them, the thisworldly and the otherwordly. The portrayal
of the form is never explicitly human nor proportional to
beings we know, they are references only to themselves
and the associations that they evoke.