fish.exe
fish.exe
Ceramic vase by Margaret Kammerer
17” x 10” x 10” / under glazed + glazed terra cotta / 2025
Equal parts desktop aquarium and sculptural screenshot, fish.exe by Margaret Kammerer reimagines a classic ceramic form as a glitchy, sunken file from your hard drive. Hand-built and hand-painted, the bright blue vessel features orange fish swimming across its surface—complete with a pixelated image icon and a hovering cursor, frozen mid-click.
Part sculpture, part pop-up window, fish.exe invites you to scroll, stare, and feel something—offline.
Margaret Kammerer is a cross-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of ceramics, sculpture, and digital culture. Based in Cincinnati, she earned her MFA from the University of Cincinnati’s DAAP in 2024 and her BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 2019. Her practice explores the evolving tension between physical and virtual spaces—blending the immediacy of internet culture with the deep material history of clay.
Through hand-built terra cotta forms, layered glazing, and references to meme aesthetics, Kammerer transforms ephemeral online gestures into enduring sculptural objects. Her work is both humorous and critical, asking what it means to long, laugh, and relate in the age of digital oversaturation. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Queen City Clay, where she continues to teach, experiment, and develop a practice grounded in both tactile craft and technological curiosity.