Artist Statement – Daniel Valencia Ferrá | Layered Ceramics Studio

When technology transforms into art, something tangible emerges—something you can truly feel. Daniel Valencia Ferrá creates sculptures that are haptic and alive, breathing like vital organisms born from the algorithm and now inhabiting physical reality.

Digital design becomes graspable, intelligible, and deeply sensual. Every form rise aesthetic standards to a superior level; every color evokes the natural world—earth, lava, stone, life itself. This is a "Back to Earth" gesture in an increasingly virtual age.

Through ceramic, Daniel Valencia Ferrá materializes the tension between the digital and the physical, between the coldness of technology and the warmth of the organic. The sculptures from Layered Ceramics Studio stand close to us, close to human existence. They offer a counterpoint to the virtual world while simultaneously bridging it to our lived experience.

When you touch one of these sculptures, you touch the moment the algorithm came alive.

EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS

  • Marbella Design & Art, Marbella, ES, 2026

  • cerARTmic, Madrid, ES, 2026

  • Milan Design Week, Worth Partnership Project, Milan, IT, 2025

  • Craft & Code, London, UK, 2025

  • FORMED // Berlin Contemporary Ceramics, Berlin, DE, 2025

  • Lisbon Design Week, "The Power of IO", Lisbon, PT, 2025

  • London Design Fair, London, UK, 2023

  • Landespreis Kunsthandwerk, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, DE, 2022

  • KWIA Deep Listening, Berlin, DE, 2022

  • B-O-C-K Showroom, Berlin, DE, 2022

  • Ceramic Kingdom Vitrine, Designer in Residence Exhibition, Berlin, DE, 2021

  • Graduation Exhibition, Co-Curator, BI University, Berlin, DE, 2020

  • RAPID Design Lab #1, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlín, DE, 2019

  • Madrid Design Week, Madrid, ES, 2018

  • Mad is Mad Gallery, Madrid, ES, 2018

  • Universität der Künste Vitrine, Berlín, DE, 2017

  • OCAD University, Curator, Toronto, CA, 2016