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Kat Sun

Reverie

2025

Project description

“What happens to a dream deferred?” This question lingers in Reverie, a sculptural meditation on the fluidity of time, memory, and transformation. Hovering between growth and dissolution, the piece unfolds like an organic entity, spreading, twisting, expanding, yet also eroding, caught in an unresolved tension between emergence and decay.

The glossy glaze lends its surface an almost liquid quality, as if it is still in the process of becoming tangible. Light shifts across its undulating forms, casting transient shadows that distort its contours, making it feel elusive, like a mirage in motion, always just beyond grasp. It resists finality, embodying the persistence of something that refuses to disappear, even as it transforms under the weight of time. 

Much like a deferred dream, Reverie lingers and mutates, reshaped by forces beyond its control. Some edges stretch outward, reaching toward unrealized potential, while others recede into the void, dissolving into uncertainty. It exists between anticipation and loss, echoing the way unfulfilled desires shift when left unresolved.

Reverie invites the viewer into this in-between space, where expansion and erosion intertwine, and where the dream persists as both memory and possibility. 

Close-up of a ceramic sculpture of orange and dark yellows ribbons Reverie, 2025, glazed terra-cotta, approx. 25 x 15 x 25 cm

Artist’s biography

Kat Sun is a Chinese multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal whose practice spans ceramics, painting, photography, and installation. Her work investigates the porous boundaries between body, object, and landscape through feminism, psychoanalysis, and embodied materiality. Her works have been presented at the VAV Gallery and Atelier 2112 in Montréal, and published in Yiara Magazine. Rooted in critical theory yet somatic in approach, her work creates affective environments that invite intimacy, ambiguity, and transformation.

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