The big ceramic fire coral four long fingers

The Big Ceramic Fire Coral (Four Long Fingers) is part of the Ceramic Corals series that Claudia Comte has been developing since 2022. Through her sculptures, the artist pays tribute to the ecosystems that biologists describe as nurseries and natural reserves essential to life. By magnifying them on a monumental scale, she celebrates these living entities — at once animal, vegetal, and geological — from which humans would have so much to learn: corals have the remarkable ability to build a shared skeleton that can form reefs, collective entities and ecosystems as precious as they are fragile, habitats for a multitude of interdependent living beings. This work was shown as part of the exhibition Regenerative Futures at the Fondation Thalie in Brussels in 2024.