David Scanavino’s work is featured in The Biennale of Contemporary Keramics, published in The New York Observer.the strongest moments happen outside, where pieces are placed among architectural traces and museum fragments. David Scanavino’s A Gift for Giovanni (2026), built from fired stoneware, explores clay as a body capable of holding absence. Its negative spaces preserve what is no longer visible, while its form alludes to maritime routes through which empires once moved culture and power.”