Mary Di Iorio’s recent cycle, Cathedra, unfolds as a lucid meditation on material thought, clay thinking itself through motion, vibration, and the recursive time of the loop. What might once have been called a “medium” in the classical sense, ceramic, with its kiln-fixed ontology and its history of use, appears here not as a stable category but as a field traversed by vectors: filmic duration, acoustic insistence, the hand’s labor, the screen’s glow. To watch these short moving images is to enter a regime in which form is not given but perpetually negotiated, where the ceramic object refuses its customary submission to gravity, utility, and silence, and instead insists on becoming, becoming animated, becoming audible, becoming an idea.
