ICA EDITION | SALT OF THE EARTH
The ICA launches its newest edition – Lina Iris Viktor’s Salt of the Earth pays homage to modernist African architecture and traditional African craftsmanship. By weaving together raw materials such as clay and bronze, Viktor nods to the rich tradition of West African pottery-making and celebrates sacred diviners and relics that appear throughout her work in the form of vessels and sculptural objects.
‣ SALT OF THE EARTH, 2024
Bronze and scarva white earthenware clay with metallic glaze details
21 x 21 x 60 cm
produced in collaboration with ICA London.
About This Project
Lina Iris Viktor's edition Salt of the Earth, 2024 is an homage to modernist African architecture and traditional African craftsmanship. By weaving together raw materials such as clay and bronze, Viktor nods to the rich tradition of West African pottery-making and celebrates sacred diviners and relics that appear throughout her work in the form of vessels and sculptural objects.
Taking off from her Constellations painting series, the gourd-shaped vessel is inlaid with golden symbols, runes, stars, and spirals, along with complex surface reliefs and beading. The interplay between golden symbols and beading synthesises the past and present of Viktor’s oeuvre and visual language, linking her exploration of symbology with the evolution of traditional forms. Inspired by a new series of sculptures that Viktor refers to as “Soul Vessels,” the bronze pedestal references and fuses together the geometric abstraction of modernist African architecture and traditional seating forms found across Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania.
Available from 10 October at ICA London.
The ICA will be present at the Allied Editions booth P3 over Frieze London 2024.
Images courtesy of Mark Blower.
Edition details
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
with signed certificate
Release date
October, 2024
