work
2025
(RE)CHARGE to (RE)NEW
Recharged with fresh perspectives, this exhibition embraces Retransformation, and Revisiting the world through eyes that have been Reawakened. Each artwork emerges from personal Reprocessing, where artists draw from distant landscapes and local studios, allowing their surroundings to Revitalize imagination and [...]
ABOUT
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has dedicated her life to the study and creation of ceramics. Having studied fine arts with a concentrated focus on ceramics, wheel throwing and sculpture, her practice reflects decades of engagement with clay as both material and medium.
Pilar Fernández Lerda’s practice is grounded in a lifelong, tactile relationship with clay—one that privileges process, patience, and embodied knowledge over finish or perfection. Working primarily in stoneware, her sculptures retain the marks of hands, tools, and pressure, allowing texture and structure to emerge asrecords of lived time.
Rather than beginning with fixed outcomes, Fernández Lerda works through dialogue with the material. Forms evolve through pushing, pinching, and assembling modular elements that function both independently and collectively. These structures evoke biological systems—cells, bones, neural networks—while also reflecting human relationships and interdependence. The works hold tension between control and surrender, stability and collapse.
Fire plays a central ritual role in her practice. While technically precise, firing becomes a moment of release—an acceptance that the final state of the work lies partially beyond the artist’s control.
This alchemical threshold reinforces clay’s status as a living intelligence rather than a passive medium.
PILAR
FERNANDEZ
LERDA