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Spanish Modern Ceramic Artist

About Clara Fuentes

In 2018, Clara Fuentes dismantled her studio kiln in Valencia, not out of frustration, but revelation, after discovering that traditional pit-firing, buried beneath coastal dunes near Denia, yielded glaze reactions no electric kiln could replicate: manganese bloomed into bruised violet under salt-laden wind, and local red clay fused with crushed seashells to form a naturally iridescent surface. She began documenting these variables like a field botanist, mapping microclimates, tidal cycles, and soil pH across twelve Mediterranean coastal zones to codify what she calls 'terroir-fired ceramics.' Her 2022 solo exhibition at IVAM didn’t hang vessels on walls, it embedded them in reclaimed sandstone plinths layered with actual sediment cores from each firing site, making geology inseparable from form. Clara doesn’t reference landscape; she materializes its memory through thermal shock, mineral migration, and the slow alchemy of sea air on raw clay.

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  • “How did the 2017 drought in Alicante change your clay sourcing?”
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What is Clara Fuentes’ relationship to the Valencian *banyes* (traditional ceramic workshops)?
Fuentes apprenticed at three generational *banyes* in Manises between 2005 and 2009 but deliberately abandoned their lead-glaze recipes after testing soil samples showing elevated arsenic levels in historic workshop runoff. She now collaborates with local geologists to identify non-toxic native minerals, like iron-rich ochres from the Serra d’Espadà, for her palette, publishing annual transparency reports on elemental composition.
Has Clara Fuentes exhibited outside Spain, and if so, how does she adapt her work for non-Mediterranean contexts?
Her 2023 installation at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum used humidity-controlled vitrines to simulate Valencian coastal microclimates, allowing her unglazed pieces to slowly effloresce salt crystals during the exhibition. In Berlin, she partnered with the Humboldt-Universität’s soil science lab to reconstitute Mediterranean mineral profiles using local volcanic ash and Rhine river silt.
What archival sources does Clara Fuentes consult for her glaze research?
She cross-references 16th-century *Libros de Oficio* from the Valencia Cathedral archives with modern XRF spectroscopy data from excavated shards at Ibiza’s Sa Caleta Phoenician settlement. Her 2021 monograph includes annotated translations of 37 medieval pigment recipes, corrected for mis-transcribed furnace temperatures based on kiln-shrinkage analysis.
Does Clara Fuentes use digital tools in her process, and if so, how?
She developed a custom Python script that correlates satellite-derived NDVI (vegetation index) data with clay plasticity tests, mapping how drought stress in regional olive groves correlates with altered iron oxide crystallization in adjacent clay beds. The code is open-source and hosted on her studio’s GitHub, alongside spectral analysis datasets from 42 coastal firing sites.
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