In the context of the second edition of Concilium, which takes the inner body as a point of departure, SOPHIE TAPPEINER presents works by Angelika Loderer, Daniel Stuhlpfarrer, and Anna Zemánková.

Daniel Stuhlpfarrer’s vessels are made from wild clay, fired for four days in a tunnel kiln, and glazed by the fly ash of the wood used to fire them. Pots hold, preserve and transport food, but also knowledge, stories and ways of gathering. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, the vessel is reimagined as one of the first cultural tools: it extends the function of the stomach, understood as a “primary container,” externalising its capacity to hold, transport and share the body’s sustenance.

Angelika Loderer’s Unit (2025) is a bronze sculpture suspended between the anatomical and the infrastructural. Its branching passages suggest systems of circulation, tunnels or channels running beneath the surface.

Anna Zemánková’s pastels similarly seem to emerge from a world just beyond recognition. Forms that resemble flowers might equally be small organisms, insects or unfamiliar botanical specimens. Drawn intuitively from nature, her intricate forms inhabit the space between observation and invention, inviting us to look without quite knowing what we are looking at.