Serena Dolinsky is a self-taught ceramic artist whose unique approach to clay is deeply rooted in her background in physical theatre, experimental scenography, and mime corporel. After two decades as a theatre artist, Serena shifted her focus to ceramics while researching the corporeality of emotions at renowned institutions in France, including the Ecole Internationale de Mime Corporel Dramatique and L.E.M. (Laboratoire Étude Mouvement) d’Ecole Jacques Lecoq.

This transition was sparked during a project where she manipulated clay to express emotional states within static structures, leading her to change her artistic medium from the human body to clay. Serena’s work explores the rhythm and gesture of emotional states, blending resistance, suppleness, and weight into tangible forms. Playfully naming her technique céramique corporelle in homage to her mime roots, she hand-builds each piece through pinching, coiling, and carving, allowing the clay to move and shape itself naturally.

Her current work delves into the delicate interplay between loss, grief, and freedom, reflecting the emotional depth of her practice. Serena's artistic philosophy emphasizes the balance between control and surrender: push the clay too hard, and it collapses; guide it gently, and it can embody even the most impossible gestures. This meditative process reveals the limitless potential of clay as a medium, offering a dynamic and freeing space for emotional exploration.