Teresa Peters is an artist and filmmaker based in Tamaki Makaurau, currently working
in clay and ceramics, photography and moving image. She is interested in bodies, earth bodies, forming
and transforming. Chemical compounds and molten entities, in intimate
combustion. ‘Excavating’ primordial totems’, as we move on into the
sixth mass extinction. Ceramics is alchemy. Earth, water, air… fire...
@STUDIO ONE TOI TU CREATIVE STUDIO RESIDENCY 2018-2019 EXHIBITION
ECHO BONE is interested in rhizomic multiplicity, nomadic transformation
and the tentacular. 'Echo' relates both to the natural phenomenon and
the Greek myth it inspired. A recent visitor to Teresa Peters' studio
aptly described ECHO BONE as a mixture between Mitochondria and
Alexandro Jodowrosky's The Holy Mountain 1973. Another described ECHO
BONE as a 60s Italian sic-fi space ship. He then proceeded to expound
the tale of his recent two month coma, after being hit by a truck in
Milan. After which, he awoke in a Fellini meets David Cronenberg film
and was to learn that a high percentage of the bones in his body has
been replaced with titanium, including his spine. Her works take on the
status of totems to question value in the Anthropocene, where tension is
rapidly increasing between human activity and the environment.
