NeSpoon
“I believe that the sound created by THOUGHTS releases my materialized peace and allows the mind to be cleansed.” The “Thoughts” project is an attempt to preserve a state of meditation in clay. Making ceramic petals, with left over clay from other works, began without any clear purpose and almost subconsciously. “Each petal takes about a minute of my time to form. I aim to make 50 kg of petals every year. By 2042 my goal is to have approximately 1500 kg of ceramic petals.”
NeSpoon is a visual artist working at the intersection of urban art, ceramics, painting, and site-specific installation. She says she was born in 2009 — the year she placed her first work in public space. Since then, her projects have appeared in more than 100 cities across over 40 countries on five continents, both in public space and in galleries and museum collections. NeSpoon has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and her works can be found on the streets as well as in private and institutional collections, including the Louvre-Lens Museum, the Lace Museum in Calais, and the Museum of Fine Arts and Lace in Alençon. Her works have also been presented at the Polish Pavilion during Expo 2020 Dubai and at the European Parliament in Brussels, European Capital of Culture 2016 Wrocław, (Poland) or the UK City of Culture Bradford 2025. From the very beginning of her practice, NeSpoon has combined urban art with elements of artivism. In other projects, she addresses social and environmental issues such as deforestation, industrial animal farming, the coming global water crisis, advertising overload, disinformation and post-truth, as well as the trauma of war. Rather than focusing on confrontation, however, she looks for what connects people instead of what divides them. As she often says, she prefers to say “yes” rather than „no.”
“Meditation for Peace,” video work
Here’s a createPeace blog post about NeSpoon’s work: Textiling the City, Crafting Peace in Mostar