Carol Young

Carol Young (Uruguayan, b.1952), born in Uruguay, has been living and making art in Colombia since the 1980s. Using ceramic as her primary medium, Young’s installations and sculptures transcend standard perception of the material, creating work that is unique, challenging, and beautiful. Her recent investigation explores the realms of memory, history, and our conceptions of paper. 

Working from an intricate network of memory, both personal and collective, Young explores their unexpected influences: how we perceive the world and how we interact with others. Young’s installations evoke these subliminal memories through a dialogue with the emptiness and freshness of a blank page. Drawing on an image that may refer to an ancient library composed of paper and parchment, her work conjures up the sign-filled archive of the many individual moments of experience—unknown and hidden information that yearns to be classified, reviewed, and studied. 

Young has shown her work throughout Colombia and Latin America, and she has received numerous awards and honors. In May 2014, Young’s work was exhibited in the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York as part of the exhibition Waterweavers, curated by Jose Roca, adjunct curator of Latin American Art at the Tate Gallery in London.

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I find this work very evocative, I love the curved lines and forms of the separate components and the way the individual elements are connected together, these biomorphic forms resonate with the things that interest me about ceramic sculpture and I find her pieces very inspiring. There is an elegance to the surfaces where she has opted to omit the use of a glaze, giving the pieces a more natural organic look. I am continuing to wrestle with the use of glazes in my own work, and am still uncertain as to whether the glazes I am selecting enhance or detract from the overall visual narrative for the pieces.