Limpets

Wall based ceramic works (2022–24)

Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Making Kin, 2025  Solo exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery, Rome
Making Kin, 2025
Solo exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery, Rome

A tribe of therianthropic creatures, part-women, part-quadruped, converge at pond engaging in a spectrum of water-related activities: from drinking and diving, to defecating, giving birth, and swimming. The water of the pond is captured trough reverberation lines. Within each creature, lies a miniature pool of liquified glass, evoking both the presence of water within living forms and an absence, a wound, akin to a stone from which a limpet was wrenched, that still bears the trace of the salt on its perimeter. 

Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Limpets, 2023, ceramic and glass, 173 × 150 cm
Limpets, 2023, ceramic and glass, 173 × 150 cm
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets

Mute Frogs, 2023/24

A multitude of frogs makes a lake out of their contorted bodies. The water is inside and outside of them: they all contain internal puddles made of foaming boiling glass. Like islands they are all different and isolated; they are not touching but are close in the shared effort to communicate. Their mouths are represented by abstract cut lines, like the strings of a musical instrument, that could make the air vibrate. This potential sound, which is represented visually, remains silent auditorily. 

Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Rane Mute [Mute Frogs], 2023–24  Ceramic and glass, 22 pieces, each 27 × 30 cm
Rane Mute [Mute Frogs], 2023–24
Ceramic and glass, 22 pieces, each 27 × 30 cm
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Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Born from Earth, 2023  Group show at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London
Born from Earth, 2023
Group show at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London
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Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
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Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Walking Into, 2023 Ceramic and glass 40 × 30 cm
Walking Into, 2023
Ceramic and glass 40 × 30 cm
Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Gaia Fugazza - Limpets - Ossi di [bones of], 2021 Black clay and squid bones, 45 × 45 cm
Ossi di [bones of], 2021
Black clay and squid bones, 45 × 45 cm