The installation “Drought” has conceptually emerged from the ceramic shards spread all over Jingdezhen, a given situation that also inspired the “Gilded Cages” project. In opposite to the blue and white ready-made ceramic shards that are typical to the Chinese ceramics, here Rieger uses deliberately fragmented hand-made porcelain pieces in white, to create an abstract landscape of a forgotten, dry land.

The monochromatic installation, that lays on the floor of the gallery, also climbs on one of its walls, as if not willing to “surrender” to the laws of nature. It reminds a desert land, but also of a living creature that constantly evolves and changes, as the shards are not laying flat on the floor, but have a sense of movement to them. As the landscape depicted in “Drought” has no specificity about its geographical location, and it is “colorless”, it calls the spectator to wonder about its political and social interpretations, and invites the viewer to take part in the artistic creation which refuses any definite borders.

This piece was exhibited in Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art in 2016 and in “White on White” Group Exhibition 2016, Mane Katz Museum, Haifa.