2 Septembre – 17 October

Presentation of the exhibitions
Sunday 3 September at 3.30 pm

Private viewing
Saturday 2 September at 6 pm

Discovery tours
Sundays 10 September and 8 October, 4 pm to 5 pm

Dominique Legros, ceramistof the Ceramics Association of La Borne, will be on hand to guide you through the exhibitions –
an opportunity not to be missed for outreach and the sharing of ideas.
Conditions: standard exhibition admission fee apples.

Open every day
From 11 am to 7 pm until 17 September
From 11 am to 6 pm from 18 September

Jane Norbury

Walking Skins

The artist was born in England and lives and works in Burgundy.

Her voluminous forms are filled with an inner energy, rising from the ground and seemingly frozen in their momentum by having passed through fire in the kiln.

Jane manipulates the large slabs of clay with the involvement of her whole body, pushing the material from the inside out, turning the walls of her pieces into a sensitive skin, and giving her sculptures an abstract form that is both familiar and strange. The pieces are worked from wet clay and retain a soft, flowing appearance. Her sculptures curl and breathe around a central opening, creating their dynamics through these internal movements. “In a magical balance between the handmade craftsmanship and the life of the material, Jane
Norbury’s works seem to be emanations of nature, without attempting to imitate it”.

Didier Brousse, Camera Obscura gallery

Jane Norbury is a Franco-British artist who has studied ceramics in the UK and France. In the 1990s, she bought an old farmhouse in Burgundy to house her large installation
piece “Têtes brûlées”, which was first exhibited in London in 1991. The Neuf Portes studio has been her workplace and home ever since.

Youkyung Sin

Moment of Empathy

The artist was born in South Korea, and lives and works in Germany.

In Youkyung Sin’s ceramics, the different shapes create a sense of comfort. Up close, a straight line can be seen, but also the segment of a long curve. In her words, the small
holes in the geometric shapes that appear on the surface of er ceramics “take your breath away”. In the bucheong* technique, the decoration involves applying white slip to the surface of the pottery with a brush and then reworking it with a finger. This decoration reveals a calm, irregular pattern.

When looking at the resulting shape, she can sometimes feel as if there is something missing, so she adds a little touch to complete the familiar shape in a slightly different
way. This unique sensibility is probably what she means by being natural and comfortable.

Yoonkyung Lee

* Buncheong is a traditional Korean technique of working with ferrous stoneware with slips and translucent glazes. Decorations or surface finishes are applied with stencils or stamps, engraved or punched, using brushes or tools.