Artistic approach

Audrey Vo Van’s work begins with the experience of landscapes and the sensations they leave in memory.

She is interested not only in what can be seen, but also in what can be felt: the scale of a landscape, light, movement, the texture of rock, a surface shaped by water or time. Erosion, fractures, strata and reliefs inform her visual language without ever becoming motifs to reproduce.

These experiences are gradually transformed through memory and gesture. Through her ceramic wall works and stoneware sculptures, Audrey Vo Van seeks to give them a new presence in matter. She builds, carves, compresses, fragments and smooths the clay; gestures are repeated and shifted to create rhythms, tensions, continuities and ruptures.

In her wall works, the surface becomes a territory. Relief responds to light, altering the perception of the work according to distance and the viewer’s movement. In her sculptures, this exploration extends into volume, through forms that appear to have been shaped by erosion, pressure or the passage of time

The act of making is central to her practice. The slowness of hand-building requires a particular attention to material and gesture. Over time, this way of working has also transformed the way she observes her surroundings, making her increasingly attentive to details, irregularities and the subtle transformations of landscapes.

Her works do not seek to preserve the image of a place, but to allow a new form to emerge from what remains after experience and memory.

Clay becomes a territory where landscape, sensation and matter meet and transform one another.

Biography

Audrey Vo Van is a French ceramic artist whose practice spans ceramic wall works and sculptural forms in stoneware.

Based in the South of France, she draws from the experience of landscapes to develop a vocabulary of forms, surfaces and reliefs. Her work explores how a sensation or impression can persist in memory and be transformed through gesture and material.

Before dedicating herself fully to ceramics, Audrey Vo Van spent more than ten years working in scientific research. This first career fostered an attentive approach to observation and experimentation that continues to inform her artistic practice.

Her encounter with clay gradually transformed the way she perceived her surroundings. The physical process of making, the slow pace of hand-building and the attention given to material led her to observe landscapes differently: their reliefs, textures and transformations, and the traces left by time.

Today, she works primarily with stoneware, building each piece by hand and exploring the possibilities of relief, volume and surface.

Her work is presented through exhibitions, fairs and collaborations. She also develops bespoke artworks in dialogue with architectural and interior projects.

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