Karian Amaya (Chihuahua, Mexico, 1986) lives and works in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. Her practice questions through sculpture the dialogues and resistances that arise between matter, landscape, and their social and territorial contexts. Influenced by the movements of land art and post-minimalism, her work is rooted in the formal and narrative encounter of raw, natural, and industrial materials, such as copper and marble. The daughter of a miner, Amaya explores in her work the extractivisms of natural minerals and the fragility they contain over time, in the face of the devastating advance of capitalist progress.

In Broken Symmetry, her first approach to ceramics, Amaya explores the principles of purism and the simplicity of essential materials to exemplify the landscape of the desert and emptiness, where, from contemplation, new horizons emerge. Composed of two large circles, the work houses multiple ceramic circumferences arranged according to a mathematical proportion that resonates with the perfection of nature. Inspired by the philosophy of the Japanese enso, the sculpture alludes to Zen tradition, where the circle is a symbol of emptiness, unity, and totality, as well as the relationship between the beginning and the end. The copper assembly of the piece acts as a subtle marker of time, evoking the image of a sundial, and invites us to reflect on the passage of time from a biocentric perspective.