#WIP Keramion Museum : 01/01/26-31/03/26
Invited for a residency at Keramion, a German museum dedicated to ceramics, I took part in their #WIP project: an immersive program in which the artist works in public, shares their creative process and techniques with visitors, while drawing inspiration from the permanent collection to create a final exhibition at the end of the residency.
It was in this context that I discovered the bestiary of Wilfried Maria Blum, whose powerful forms and mastery of glazes left a deep impression on me. His work nourished my reflection while encouraging me to remain faithful to my own artistic language: anthropomorphic sculpture, and more specifically female figures.
This research led me to explore hybrid figures — monstrous women. For centuries, art has animalized women in order to justify their domination. Even today, their “animality” is used as a moral warning, a source of ridicule, or merely as an erotic ornament shaped for the male gaze.
In response, I chose to reverse these codes. In the work created during these three months, animal attributes do not diminish — they elevate. A claw is not a sign of theft, but of strength and grounding. A wing does not symbolize inconsistency, but freedom. These hybrids become beautiful, powerful, free, and sovereign.
The works also explore an extensive treatment of surfaces: colorful glazes that drip and shimmer or, conversely, become raw and deliberately repulsive, questioning our relationship to beauty and inviting the viewer to move beyond the smooth, retouched images that saturate today’s visual landscape.
This residency resulted in the creation of four pieces, exhibited in dialogue with the museum’s collection. The video bellow retraces the entire process: from studio work and exchanges with the public to the final exhibition.