Not art for art’s sake, but for something real

For years, I lived by logic. Research.
Data. Control.

It was a life that made sense - but
not one that made me feel alive. Something in me craved slowness. Texture. Stillness.
A rhythm I couldn’t find behind my three screens.

Then one day, almost by accident, I pressed my fingers into a lump of clay beside my children. No big revelation. Just a quiet gesture.

But in that moment, something woke up inside me : I had found what I didn’t know I was missing. Since that day, I’ve shaped every piece by hand. Not to chase perfection - but to listen to what wants to emerge.

My name is Audrey Vo Van.

I’m a ceramic artist living near Montpellier, in the South of France. Rooted between French and Vietnamese cultures, I spent half my life feeling in-between. Until ceramics gave me a way to belong.

My artistic practice is all about tension and reconciliation.

I work where opposites meet: the raw and the polished, the soft and the sharp, the old and the now. Each piece holds contrast - not to resolve it, but to let it breathe.
I sculpt the yin and the yang. The presence and the absence. Because life isn’t just one thing. It’s the friction between two truths.
I build slowly, letting the textures speak. I leave traces, cracks, asymmetries - because they tell the real story.
This is where I find beauty: in restraint, in silence, in imperfection.

My work is guided by wabi-sabi and Kurinuki, by nature’s quiet balance and the memory held in the clay itself.

I create objects that whisper, that round, that carry presence. This isn’t about trends. It’s about truth.
It’s about creating something you can feel - in your hands, in your home, in your breath.
So if you’re looking for objects that speak not louder, but deeper...

Welcome.

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