Taste Contemporary presents Altered States, a poetic encounter between the Belgian ceramic artist Anne Marie Laureys and Italian fine art photographer Costanza Gastaldi.
In this exhibition, clay and image converse in a realm where form is never fixed. Both artists draw us into a shifting landscape — a place where matter breathes, dissolves, and reforms in endless transformation. What appears still is, in truth, alive with motion and metamorphosis.
At the core of this dialogue lies Anne Marie Laureys’ ceramic practice: vessels that seem to inhale and exhale, their surfaces folding, twisting, and blooming into unexpected shapes. Familiar yet strange, her sculptures capture the very moment when clay transcends its own weight — soft, supple, and charged with emotion.
Beside them, Costanza Gastaldi’s photographs unfold like fragments of dreams — shadowed reflections where perception and memory gently entwine. Her images hover between waking and reverie, mirroring the fluid, uncertain beauty of Laureys’ forms.
Together, their works open a space of quiet transformation — an invitation to linger where the solid turns liquid, and the seen becomes felt.
