07/01/2026
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Handmade ceramics by Martina Franic, using wheelthrow, coiling and kurinuki technique. Some pieces are woodfired, some are fired in el.kiln.
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Trg Petra Petretića 1
Zagreb
10000
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PEPEL is a shop in which hand-made objects are collected and presented for purchase. It aspires towards openness in its purpose and its atmosphere as to support the potential for conversation between the objects themselves. These are household items - stacks of tactile ceramics, fine cotton and linen in varying density to drape the body while it rests, soft and shaped wool to warm and protect the body - items whose purpose is varied, as days are varied. All of these objects, however poetic, are interested in being used and inspire both a humble and a sensory engagement.
'Pepel', which translates as 'Ash', is the quieting remnant of a fire; one that eventually overcomes the force of its own cause. It's potential for 'finishing' has been harnessed by ceramics since their traceable beginning as a coating or glaze: we discover in ash an unbelievable spectrum of colour. - We can imagine ash in the kiln, falling like a snow that stains the surface of its contents. Fire makes its alterations as quickly and voraciously as perspective. Ash remembers this event, as impermanent and neutral a substance it may seem. But ash is fundamentally indifferent to the activity of the fire, what the transformation itself may have been; it expresses only that a transformation has indeed occurred. Pepel reminds us of the nuanced and distilled energetics of the remnant. It celebrates supreme eventfulness and the great reduction of a fire, crucible, or of change.
Pepel is interested in nurturing and presenting communities of makers gathered by a shared awareness of sustainability, the value of natural material, and the value of craft: the collapse, in a single gesture, of creative and manual labour. Thus Pepel collects and displays various hand made objects informed by, and that will inform, the activity of daily life so that they may be discovered and purposed.
