A collaboration with The Must, Anita Muçolli & Dimitra Charamandas
ongoing
Ceramic is a volatile medium; Muçolli and Charamandas forged their friendship and collaboration in sharing the joys and heartbreaks of learning to manage its demands and possibilities. Shortly before graduating they were each offered their first solo institutional exhibitions, in two different Swiss museums, and their aligned schedules meant they could keep sharing a studio after their degree. As they worked on their respective preparations throughout the spring and summer of 2023, they continued their experimentation with ceramic and came up with the idea for the bags as a way to reward themselves for their hard work. By chance, Art Basel was coming up, and they liked the idea of showing up with a very special accessory amidst the chaos of the week. It was an eradication of the limitations of a material they had both grown to love.
The Anita Muçolli x Dimitra Charamandas bags are unique, each of them created either by Muçolli or Charamandas in their respective styles and aesthetics. The artists are always primarily interested in the haptic relationships their objects enable, and they enjoy each other’s different formal outcomes, testing the limits of the material with varying shapes and glazes. They share a similar approach to managing the unpredictability of the medium, and plan to develop a line of jointly-designed bags in the future.
