Jeanne François
Jeanne François (b.1999) is a french ceramist and sculptor whose work revolves around wild clays and the exploration of the land. After briefly studying literature, she obtained a BA in Object design and Ceramics in Paris, followed by a 2-year MA in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art, London. She now lives and works in Paris.
Alongside her own digging trips, she has worked alongside collectives such as ECT and Golden Earth, to reclaim excavated soils in her ceramics. She's taken her exploration of the land throughout several residencies and has been exploring wood firings in Oxford university kilns.
I am made of landscapes. As I am moving through different grounds the houses I lived in distort in my memory. My works are images of childhood homes, of 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 environ- ment and because of it, how we abandon layers, put pieces back together, recraft ourselves in a constant loss of home.
Much like the concept of deterritorialization, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, I am looking at representing the distortion that happpens when one leaves a territory, and by that movement, constitutes and extends the territory itself.
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