Sculptural Vessels Workshop, Recreating the Language of Ancient SouthAmerican Cultures

Victoria Morando was born on October 14th, 1969, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an architect by academic training from the National University of Buenos Aires and a self-taught ceramicist.

In the year 2000, she began practicing the craft of ceramics after moving to the Sierras of Córdoba. Since then, she has been continuously studying and developing the techniques and language of the first pottery-making peoples of the Americas, focusing particularly on the cultures of the Central Sierras and the Argentine Northwest.

Since 2019, she has been especially studying the ancient ceramics of the Central Sierras as a way of connecting with the land where she has lived for more than 20 years. She carries out the ceramic process in its full cycle: collecting and preparing local clay, mixing it into workable paste, hand-building vessels, and firing them with wood using reduction techniques.

Dedicated to the creation of the ONE-OF-A-KIND VESSEL, her work seeks to express the memory of the land and its landscape. She defines her work as experimental archaeology.

She currently lives in Los Cocos, Córdoba. Her home is an estate dedicated to the development of ceramic craft. There, she exhibits her work permanently and hosts temporary shows with other artists. In her teaching career, she has conducted over 70 seminars and 23 annual workshops, having trained around 800 people and built ceramic kilns in various locations.