The Porcelain Maps Archive
In Yael Atzmony’s porcelain works, maps are transformed into visual testimonies of places that no longer exist. Emerging from years of archival investigation and informed by personal and familial biographies, these maps memorialize moments suspended in the past of two specific sites. Both locations have since undergone radical transformation, their material realities erased, leaving only their names to persist on present day cartographies.
Artist: Yael Atzmony
Curatorship and exhibition design

Slough - Fragments of Memory (detail), 2012-2025, porcelain, screen print, Ticho House, Jerusalem

Blind Maps(detail), porcelain, stoneware, mixed various techniques, 160x4.5 cm. each one, 2012-2013

Sediment Maps, white, black porcelain and terracotta, ready-made and handmade ceramic print, 2024

Sediment Maps, white, black porcelain and terracotta, ready-made and handmade ceramic print, 2024

A Letter to my Father, porcelain, hand drawing, 118x78x0.2 cm.

Sediment Maps, white, black porcelain and terracotta, ready-made and handmade ceramic print, 2024

Sediment Maps, white, black porcelain and terracotta, ready-made and handmade ceramic print, 2024

Blind Maps(detail), porcelain, stoneware, mixed various techniques,160x4.5 cm., 2012-2013