Tentacular Thinking

HB381 is pleased to announce Tentacular Thinking, an exhibition of new ceramic sculptures by Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen (Danish, b. 1987). Tentacular Thinking is the gallery’s inaugural show and the artist’s first solo presentation in the United States.

Pontoppidan Pedersen lives and works on a farm in the remote countryside of Denmark. Hers is an intensely personal and physical creative process, driven by intuition and the ability to embrace discomfort—to rest in the fear of not knowing what may result as she builds—transferring her body’s energy through her fingertips directly into the clay. She is not the first Danish artist to reject or rebel against a strong ceramic tradition and the often rigid formal language of her predecessors, but the freedom she allows herself is remarkable. To this end, Pontoppidan Pedersen has consciously designed an environment of isolation from outside intervention or pressure. Her barn studio is a cocoon where she can explore with abandon, uninterrupted by anything but her own internal voice.