Terracoda
(terra • coda)
Terra — earth, soil, clay; the ground beneath and around us.
Coda — a concluding passage; the final movement in a composition or dance.
Terracoda brings these two ideas together:
an exhibition shaped from the earth
and offered as a closing gesture—
a final shared movement for the year’s Nubuke+ series.
Clay becomes both material and metaphor here. It is earth that remembers, matter that holds time, and a language shaped through the hands. In Terracoda, two artists—Enoch Laryea and Miiickey Madu—meet on this common ground, each approaching clay from distinct artistic lineages, yet finding a conversation in form, texture, and process.
- For Laryea, clay is a site of craft and continuity. His work emerges from intimate knowledge of the material, inviting us to witness how the earth responds to the rhythm of practiced hands.
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For Madu, clay becomes a space of experimentation—an extension of his painterly instincts and a place where gesture, color, and intuition settle into sculptural form.
Together, their works form a kind of duet:
two voices in clay, two approaches to earth, two ways of listening to what the ground offers.
Terracoda invites visitors to consider clay not just as a medium, but as a code—an archive of memory and possibility. It reminds us that every mark, every curve, every fired surface is part of a wider choreography between material, maker, and meaning.
This exhibition closes the Nubuke+ year with a quiet proposition:
that the earth is always speaking, and that artists, through their hands, help us hear it.