A world-famous ceramicist and author, Edmund de Waal combines porcelain, marble, and metal with objects and text to create his own minimalist artistic language. Born in 1964 into a scholarly family in Nottingham, England, he approaches both art and words with meticulous care. “Today, like yesterday and like tomorrow,” he writes in an essay, “I am making nothing grander than a cylinder … the merest impression of my hand and then my impressed seal. All those iterative movements of arm, wrist and hand, time after time after time. I [am] making a series of volumes, contained spaces: each vessel is a breath and I am counting time.”Axel Salto was born in Denmark in 1889, but he too used the materiality of clay to explore metamorphosis—glazes “caught in flux.” In this exhibition the two artists are brought together, both playing with fire. —Elena Clavarino