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