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Bio

After studying graphic design and narrative drawing, I discovered glass through a collaboration with a glassblower. I then trained in working with molten material and spent several years in Paris as a flame-work glassblower, collaborating with artists and designers.

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I continued my training at CERFAV, where I developed a more personal approach to the medium. My path then led me to Norway, where I lived and worked for eight years.

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Now based in Brittany, I have established my studio in a former school building, where I pursue a practice combining artistic research, experimentation, and creation.

My engagement with glass originates in the observation of molten material and the corporeal language it demands. The process itself operates as a site of inquiry — a form of practice that unfolds as much through making as through perception.

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Glass, in its apparent malleability, reveals a fundamental resistance: its flexibility is inseparable from the complexity of its execution. It is a material that imposes both technical precision and emotional intensity.

This inherent tension can act as a point of friction, where the pursuit of mastery risks overtaking the generative potential of the process. It is precisely within this unstable balance that the work is situated.

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My practice unfolds as a sculptural investigation in which molten glass is approached as a field of forces, defined by the interplay between control and instability.

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Through the act of blowing, I enter into a dialogic relationship with a material whose properties

— fluidity, heat, gravity — actively condition and disrupt the formation of form.

Rather than resolving these constraints, the work engages with them.

The process becomes a site of negotiation, where gesture, breath, and fire operate as co-constitutive elements, displacing authorship toward a shared agency between maker and material.

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