Jaume Roig
This is the first monographic book dedicated to the Mallorcan artist Jaume Roig (Almunia, 1981).
For five years, Jean Marie del Moral has documented the life and work of Jaume Roig in his studio. The images reveal the intimacy of an artist deeply connected to the earth, clay, and the landscape that shaped his growth and his understanding of ceramics and art.
The project is completed by the unique voice of Joan Miquel Oliver —musician, lyricist, writer, and close friend of Jaume Roig— who provides the text accompanying the photographs. His words, full of insight and complicity, further immerse us in the universe of this creator.
This is the first monographic book dedicated to the Mallorcan artist Jaume Roig (Almunia, 1981).
For five years, Jean Marie del Moral has documented the life and work of Jaume Roig in his studio. The images reveal the intimacy of an artist deeply connected to the earth, clay, and the landscape that shaped his growth and his understanding of ceramics and art.
The project is completed by the unique voice of Joan Miquel Oliver —musician, lyricist, writer, and close friend of Jaume Roig— who provides the text accompanying the photographs. His words, full of insight and complicity, further immerse us in the universe of this creator.
"In the material Jaume works with, there is art, but that art remains silent. He simply makes it resonate, bringing it to light in the least invasive, most direct, and swiftest way possible."
Mother-of-pearl, which will in time become the pearl, begins to form when a foreign element is introduced into the oyster. Anatomy of an Oyster is a journey into the past – a path backwards to revisit places from the author’s childhood that help contextualise her present. It traces a story of violence, revision and integration from the abuses she suffered in her family as a child.
It is, above all, an attempt to tell what needs to be told; a way of telling what could never be revealed to a now absent mother. And, at the same time, a way of telling it to herself. In this descent into the depths of remoteness, images and texts of the pearl-forming process accompany both new and archival photos, as well as short notes that capture her emotional, bodily and family memory.
The pearl, which is an oyster’s autobiography, is the result of this exploration: a search carried out to find it, assimilate it, and finally remove it.
