Stéphanie POINCLOUX

I use domestic water that isn’t too dirty, food-based binding agents and natural pigments.

A choice of constraint in my artistic practice.

I research and adapt old recipes such as 16th century stonecardboard, papercob and rope pottery, and continue to investigate the decomposition of these materials outdoors.

I experiment with all their plasticity.

My discoveries are the starting point for series inspired by time, infinity and the cycle.
The works can be made with a very fragile paste representing the sky on old, worn and patched sheets.

Sometimes they are collections of heterogeneous objects from dreamlike explorations of surprising textures. Or large pieces with rough layers that pay homage to the female domestic activity of transporting water, with the bodies merging with the containers.

Using the traces left by the living on inert elements, they become surviving transmitters, endless memories.

It is a movement in an echo of time that awakens from the inert accumulation of the useless.