Polina Perl’s work centers on clay as both material and language. Long considered humble or secondary, clay becomes a site of meaning, memory, and cosmology in her practice. Through layered, textured surfaces, Perl creates abstract maps that suggest traces of identity, time, and lived experience. These works read as symbolic terrains where personal and collective histories intersect, linking earth and cosmos, past and present. Clay functions not as representation, but as a carrier of thought, a visual vocabulary that holds memory, vulnerability, and continuity.
