Adi Toch

Toch’s work explores the sensorial, historical, and cultural dimensions of metal through the realm of objects and our close relationships with them. She employs her material’s transformative, reflective, and sonic qualities, engaging the viewer through an embodied experience. Her practice often involves collaborations with museums and artists from other disciplines.

Her vessels begin as flat sheets of metal, transformed through traditional techniques and an experimental sensibility into delicate, hollow forms. Much of her process focuses on the metal’s surface, where colour, texture, and time converge. In her poetic Shrouded series, she collaborates with nature’s own mark-making, burying pieces in the earth for prolonged time to develop unique polychromatic patinas.

The interiors of her vessels are treated in diverse ways to reveal the sensory potential of metal. Some are polished to a mirror-like finish that reflects their surroundings, while others conceal gemstones that role gently when handled, producing subtle sounds that capture the musicality of metal. Her fascination with reflection extends beyond vessel forms into mirrors and wall-based works, where she investigates the elusive boundary between material and image.

Her fascination with reflection extends beyond vessel forms into mirrors and wall-based works, where she investigates the elusive boundary between material and image.