1 July – 29 August

Presentation of the exhibitions
Sunday 1 July at 3.30 pm

Private viewing
Saturday 1 July at 6 pm

Discovery tours
Sunday 16 July, 11 am to noon
Sunday 13 August, 4 pm to 5 pm

Laurence Blasco Mauriaucourt, President of 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

Laurence Crespin

The artist lives and works in Paris.

Her sense of spatial quality and her taste for purity have long been qualities of her work. She has chosen formal rigour in her minimal approach to certain objects or minerals. In order to make the light vibrate better on this “glazed skin” which gives substance to her hall of forms, she likes to repeat her shapes. The diversity of the surfaces obtained – controlled drips, smoothing, granulations, flaking, mould, saltpetre, cob and concrete, an oily appearance, the velvety feel of wax – give the lie to the seemingly limited range of colours of glaze, but using the colour black is what she prefers. It has become her mission, perhaps even her identity. Its mattness, brilliance, light and material guide her work, with stoneware revealing its grain and chamotte at its best. On entering this “risky” black terrain, the allusion to the work of the great Pierre Soulages seems inevitable. In her latest works, the ceramist comes close to the painter’s famous “Noirs-Lumières”, through the multiplicity of metaphorical fields she opens up for the eye and the mind. Charcoal, tar, petroleum and squid ink, we are drawn in by Laurence’s blacks, which incite concentration and silent deference in the face of her ability to produce such beauty through ever greater subtraction and asceticism. In her work, black is definitely no longer the colour of dullness, it becomes the colour of eloquence.

Text (extract): Frédéric Bodet

Yun-Jung Song

Les Sauvagesques

The artist is originally from South Korea. She lives and works in Strasbourg.

Her preferred practice is modelling, which is an ancestral technique throughout the world. What she particularly enjoys and tries to convey is the feeling that each piece seems to have a breath of life and a personality of its own. Her aim is to create an inspiring, dreamlike, imperfect world, one that contrasts with the ordinary, real world. In her work, she is constantly searching for her origins, marked by myths and legends from her childhood in Korea. Family history, dreams and tales mingle together in her sculptures, which centre on humans but are populated by trees and animals. Her sculptures refer to certain beliefs, questioning absence and seeking out amazement. Her sometimes mysterious visions often conjure up issues of memory, nostalgia, loneliness and uprooting, as an attempt to rediscover a forgotten or lost childhood, or portray a dialogue between spirits and the living, through a symbiosis, a confrontation, a cycle between humans and nature.