Ghosts

Japanese cotton paper and glass. Dimensions variable.  

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Ghosts is a series of paper objects, cast from vessels, simple objects and kitchen containers that were inherited by the artist. These ghost-like containers are fragile shells of memory, archived and displayed as “findings of a time past”. They represent a mapping of personal gestures and actions, of functions and traces enclosed in the hollow emptiness of their translucent skin. Couta, in her work, is fascinated by the collection of objects in a lifetime, objects that tell the stories of ourselves and others. Objects as a system we connect to the past. Objects as narratives, possessions that exceed our lives and remain after death as proof of our existence.