Sophia Bsiri

When one speaks of the desert, one speaks of dryness, of brittle plants and elusive mirages — but also of femininity. The desert is not only a place; it is a feeling, something vast, indefinite, impossible to fully grasp. For this project, I was invited to work with ceramic: a material entirely new to me. That unfamiliarity became an opening. It forced me to slow down, to abandon the immediacy of my usual gestures and embrace a more deliberate, attentive rhythm. My piece is an attempt to capture a trace: a fragile imprint hovering between natural form and visual illusion, like a memory on the edge of disappearance. The shapes I created evoke wild desert plants — dry, skeletal, yet deeply alive.