Exhibitor’s Stories

Here, a tile panel, a pile of raw dirt, a few moulds, rolls of clay, and blocks of unfired dirt. What you see here is dirt in different conditions: raw (collected from construction sites), plastic (made into a clay body), solid (rammed into an earth block), and a device used to give clay a certain form.

You may know that dirt is beneath our feet and buildings, but you may not know that this material makes up at least 50% of the pieces exhibited in this project. When dirt is compressed, it becomes rammed earth; when fired, it turns into ceramics.

Hong Kong Soil was initiated in 2021 and has been transforming discarded soil from construction into ceramics and rammed earth construction ever since.