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Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of the reconstituted domestic objects that she has mostly sourced from the Milnerton Market in Cape Town. Through the casting process required to make each new object, the history of each object was erased while the inherent memories the object carries are retained in its shape. Stegmann also designed carpeting made from three texture densities of tatami mat to create a gingham pattern, as well as fake fur carpet throws, wallpaper with burnt and roof-tile patterns, and bronzed “protectors of the house” that guard the entrance.
