Belen Iglesias Molli - Caja Royal

Caja Royal

Hand-shaped and hand-painted ceramic piece, using stoneware and high-temperature engobes. The work recreates a baking powder tin of the Royal brand. Unique piece, unsigned.

Belén Iglesias Molli (Buenos Aires, 1993)

From a very young age she developed a strong artistic inclination, influenced by her father and grandparents, architects and great illustrators, as well as by her mother, a preschool teacher, who instilled in her the love for craftsmanship and manual work.
The travels for her father's work to Japan during the 1990s and her participation in the construction management of a traditional Japanese house intended to become a contemporary ceramic museum in Argentina (Casa MINKA) sparked in her an early interest in this culture. The spaces, along with the objects and stories she brought back from her trips, constituted an early and highly influential first contact with the Japanese atmosphere and sensitivity. This link was further consolidated during her architecture training — graduated in 2017 from the University of Buenos Aires — and upon starting her ceramic practice in the workshop of Maximiliano Abbiati, an Argentine ceramist and professor at the National University of the Arts.
In 2019 her growing interest in ceramics led her to move to Valencia, a city near Manises, a historical center of ceramics and home to the International Ceramic Biennial. Between 2022 and 2025 she participated in small group exhibitions and continued developing her practice in various workshops until opening her own studio in 2026, where she currently creates all of her works.
With a education deeply shaped by architecture, drawing, and Japanese culture, her ceramic work dialogues with objects that present themselves as cultural artifacts capable of condensing identity, memory, and desire. With a special interest in the idea of the traveling object, crossing cultural borders, accumulating layers of meaning and transforming its value and presence over time and context.
Her pieces are hand-shaped and hand-painted in stoneware and high-temperature engobes, through a slow and meticulous process, in tension with the logic of consumption associated with the objects they represent, reconfiguring their value and presence.