A story about the finest and most delicate porcelain princess and her dangerous surroundings threatened by monsters, pollution and decay; a ceramic cartoon world where the fragile little gold crowned darling ingenuously is tempted by poisonous fungus at one moment - and crying out for help the next – without being heard.
This and much more is What Jette Löwén Dall is introducing us to in the exhibition “Princess of Keramos” at the Danish museum of ceramics.

The exhibition opens tuesday the 20th of November. Everyone is welcome at the reception friday the 23rd of November at 2.00 pm.

The occasion for the exhibition is that Jette Löwén Dall is the first recipient of the new grant of the visual art, arts and craft and design of the triangle region. A prestigious award for 50.000 kr. which was presented to the artist at the Danish museum of ceramics on the 10th of October this year.
The recipient of the grant is newly qualified from the College of Design in Kolding and the reason for her award is her examination project “Princess of Keramos.
The project is a new interpretation of the porcelain figure and the now exhibited series of ceramic tableaux tells the story about the princess and her two friends who set out to the country of Keramos where everything is made of clay and things from the world of ceramics. On their journey they meet good and evil in different forms.

Dall was among 14 candidates for the award and the jury of the grant selected her for the reason among others that she has created a convincing connection between kitsch and youth culture while technically creating a connection between otherwise mutual unlike materials including porcelain;
“Jette Löwén Dall here demonstrates her ability to combine materials and techniques in a confident and independent way with a result that sparkles with energy to narrate and sense of material collision. Colours and shapes united in sculptural mini tableaux contains ingenuous universes with obvious references to icons of childrens literature like “Alice in Wonderland and the mumi trolls while there is an lively eye to the modern Japanese games such as pokémon, cartoons and animated cartoons.
With “princess of Keramos Jette Löwén Dall is entering a modern trend where the seemingly sweetish story is stretching in ingenuous mini universes which radiates feeling and artistic spontaneity” (quotation of the jury)

The exhibition can be seen up to and including Sunday the 27th of January 2008.

Yours faithfully
Lise Seisbøll
Curator