Sara Samsøe Moghaddas (b. 1991) is a Danish-Iranian ceramic artist. Self-taught, she has developed her practice through extensive experiments with clay, beginning with familiar forms and allowing them to evolve as they grow. In her hands, a vessel may take on the features of a face, and an ordinary object may become a ground for ornament.
Her sculptures are coil-built, with walls raised by hand, one coil upon the next, and most decisions made during the process. The resulting forms are organic and irregular in outline, and no two are alike.
Samsøe Moghaddas grew up with Persian arts and crafts close at hand, and that early familiarity has shaped her work as much as her sense of self. Clay has become her way of staying connected to that tradition, bringing remembered ornament and craft into the slow work of the hand. Those early encounters inform a practice in which decoration is closely bound to form, lending each object its rhythm, texture and character.