Anne-Laure Cano: Accumulations

Cano’s ceramic sculptures are connected by an engagement with the concept of ‘accumulation’, if in different ways. In less than a decade she has accumulated new experiences and contexts for her work; she has moved from Bordeaux to London to Barcelona, set up new studios, and utilised new clays and glazes. She has accumulated new skills and mastered new languages, oral as well as visual. Whilst others may regard their work as a diary of change, Cano reflects upon the past only to inform the present. Older works are not sentimental keepsakes but raw material for new pieces that are, themselves, accumulations of new thought, experience, and her own evolving sense of self.