Ninon Hivert

"Ninon Hivert, like an archaeologist, seizes the anonymous, captures the banal, gleans the urban. Her ceramics are imprints, plastic translations of familiar, generic forms: clothes, accessories, everyday objects, always close to the body. Using clay for its mimetic potential, she models reality by remaking it, repeating it, in temporalities similar to those of painting and photography, where revelation follows a period of drying and exposure. His practice is one of serial transcription, this time resolutely manual: from one object to another, from one material to another, from touch to eye, from memory to gesture. The mimicry is not so much in the definitive appearance as in the work-in-progress that needs to be revealed. Andreanne Béguin(...)

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