Christine Louviaux

Being affected by the beauty of “nature” is not enough. We need to reinvent how to be in the world.

The dualistic and holistic conceptions of the world are correlated to each other and have characterized Western civilization since the dawn of time, alternating domination and exploitation with veneration. An epistemological change is vital.

By practicing ceramics in the most ecological way possible, I try to explore, in all humility, this journey, this new alliance, this co-creation.

The clay in all its states, unmodeled, is associated with the geometric shape of the structured, polished, sculpted edge as a psychic and societal human construction.

The sculpture emerges from a mass of clay (Kurinuki). I let the clay expressing itself and the piece is constructed by following the paths of formations-deformations according to the events that arise. It is more about encounters, interactions than seeking mastery of the subject.

Then comes the test of fire. It magnifies everything during a charcoal wild cooking. The ash of trees and plants deposits slag, becomes enamel. The game of redox fixes the tongues of fire and smoke on the clay becoming sandstone.