On the surface is a storytelling programme that tells the story of ceramics and the intimacy of life on the surface of this material: because the Opificio Ceramico surfaces live in people’s lives. And if they live with people, as they are near them, why can’t they be the perspective and portrait that narrates their lives?
On the surface imagines the life stories that meet on the ceramic surfaces of Opificio Ceramico: it is the chance to dream and to remember that ceramics are alive because they become part of the story of the people who choose them.
Different stories, different experiences, precious objects, perhaps handed down through the family, which may have survived a journey, may have been a present from a dear one or be kept to commemorate an important moment. Each surface is a page of a visual diary, bearing witness to tangible and intangible impressions, reflecting personality, tastes, preferences and desires.
The stories are like daily experiences reflected on the ceramic surface, they are surroundings and borders that become spaces for a story, written notes, snap shots, and impressions that narrate appearances and emotions. These snap shots tell a story that we can complete with our imagination or that, perhaps, we do not need to complete because we know them well: they also belong to us.
