Dita Cossio is a ceramic artist and designer from Chile. She studied Digital Manufacturing, where she learned about new creative technologies. In 2016, Dita explored ceramics and experimented with textile molds. The next year, she moved to New York to broaden her knowledge of clay chemistry with Professor Matt Katz (Ceramic Engineer at Alfred University and the University of Colorado-Boulder). In 2022, her research project was recognized with a grant from the National Culture Fund Award (Fondart) in the Design and Creation category.
The artist, inspired by the alchemy of transformation, uses her sewing machine to create soft leather molds to cast porcelain, allowing shape and texture to be molded by physical laws—a unique method developed by the artist. Just as AI blurs the line between the authentic and artificial, the artist blends ancestral crafts to achieve a similar effect. The result is a captivating fusion of the rigid and flexible, encouraging us to question reality and explore the boundaries between the tangible and illusory.
She currently lives and works in Chile, continuing her research in a self-taught manner, and has participated in art gallery and fair exhibitions in recent years in Paris, Venice, Korea, Strasbourg, and Peru.
