DET KONGELIGE AKADAMI // GRADUATION PROJECT
INTERNAL FRAMEWORK 2021
THE IDENTITY OF CERAMICS
Internal Framework begins with a question of identity. What makes a person who they are? What lies beneath the visible – like a quiet support structure within the body, the mind, the life we live? From this point, Signe Boisen takes the question one step further. Instead of searching within the human self, she looks to the material. She asks: What is the identity of ceramics? What is the innermost layer – the structure upon which everything else rests?
Boisen works her way into the material’s bone and nerve. She strips away, reduces, reveals – until only the essence remains. A framework, an internal scaffold, from which form can grow. But what is a framework, truly? Is it fixed, or does it evolve over time? Where does the outer surface end, and the core begin?
All photos are by // Kirstine Autzen
Through reduction, Boisen guides the vase back to its origin – to the very core of form. Each piece is born through repeated gestures: layers removed, proportions finely tuned, until the clay speaks for itself.
Boisen’s work is a quiet form of excavation: an exploration of simplicity as insight. In her hands, the vase becomes more than a vessel – it becomes a question of identity, of form, and of what remains when everything unnecessary is removed.
Process work from BA project Internal Framework
25.06.21 – 20.09.21 Bornholms Kunstmuseum.
In Internal Framework, the foundation is examined – in clay, and in us. The question remains open, resonant: What shapes our inner structure? And who might we be, if everything external were stripped away?
Video by // I DO ART Agency