Jeanne François

My works are images of childhood homes, homes we borrow, homes we build ourselves in, homes we leave, homes we stay stuck in, homes we dream of. I am thinking about remains – about how we build ourselves despite our environment and because of it, how we abandon layers, put pieces back together, recraft ourselves in a constant loss of home. 

These works evoke pieces of furnitures, elements of a house altered or reimagined through time. They look like they’ve been re-assembled, crafted, sewed, with the different layers and textures we give to a memory. I like to see them as shells, ghosts of the actual object. Because I use wild clay, which melt at a low temperature, underneath porcelain that doesn't, the works moves beyond my control, the deeper layers influencing the top layers, like the past invades the present time, making up a memory.