Photography by Dilya London
N I N A S A L S O T T O C A S S I N A
Nina Salsotto Cassina (b. 1989, Cuneo) was born and grew up in Piedmont, near the Maritime Alps. After studying economics in Milan and then moving to London to specialise in international politics, she began her career working as a consultant for a number of tertiary sector organisations. From her home base in London, she began to develop an interest in clay and ceramics, eventually founding Unurgent Argilla, a project combining research and art practices with the objective of constructing a vocabulary of natural materials. In 2022, she moved permanently to Milan, where she dedicates all her time to ceramics.
Self-taught, she mainly works at the wheel and she forages locally all of her materials. Nina recently built a large single-chamber wood kiln on Mt Bisalta, half dug in earth and half made with bricks. She is currently making all of her work in this kiln during long (3,5/4 days) and seasonal firings with a community of local ceramicists.
Her works have been published in Ceramic Review and exhibited or acquired by various European galleries and museums.
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