CERES
Hand-built stoneware incense burners
CERES is a series of hand-built stoneware incense burners, developed between Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Lund, Sweden.
It began in 2024 as a collaboration between Yamila Palatnik and Pilo Marimón. Yamila leads the design from Auckland. Pilo develops and makes the pieces in clay in Lund. The forms took shape through sketches and exchange, and changed through conversation, testing and refinement before being built by hand.
Variation is left visible: surface and proportion differ from piece to piece. Each form has a figurative presence without a fixed meaning. Every piece is stamped, numbered and made to be used.
The name echoes seres, beings in Spanish, and the dwarf planet Ceres, first used in the project as a marker of distance.
- Design
- Yamila Palatnik
- Ceramic development & making
- Pilo Marimón
- Material
- Stoneware
- Developed between
- Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand / Lund, Sweden
- Edition
- 17 per form
- Year
- 2024–
- CERES is available by enquiry.
For availability, contact yamila.palatnik@gmail.com
H 14 cm · Ø 5.7 cm · edition of 17
No.2, wide brim form · H 14 cm · Ø 7 cm · edition of 17
Development, 2024–2025
Most of the development happened at a distance. Pilo built early forms in Lund and brought them to video calls. Yamila drew corrections over photographs of the prototypes and worked out how the smoke would travel through each figure.
- Marks
Yamila Palatnik 
Pilo Marimón - Edition
- 17 per form. Each piece is stamped and numbered.
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