Julia Huteau fits between the kiln and the screen. Even if she starts with digital drawings made with vertuals reality tools in order to better defy gravity, which she then studies on animation software, it is in order to interpret this potential on paper with traditional graphic tools, and above all, by passing through a modelled maquette, to achieve the production of a unique volume. For this series  » Rebound « , a movement through her body in several stages from her eyes to her fingers transforming virtual reality into reality. Thus, the objects are made from a fireclay, cut with thread and then assembled with slap. Each involves a hundred or so bonding operations, showing recesses and curves that today’s printer cannot yet shape. Moreover, its stoneware is grogged, which indicates that it does not pass through a nozzle. The gas fired result offers further evidence asserting a navigation between electronic imaging and hands on making, between digital and digital. The surface exhibits a rough battered texture onto which the glaze slides, contrary to the smooth and polished aesthetics of artificial intelligence. To merge the best of the properties of both worlds, the artist moves between a nearby Fablab and her studio installed in an old ceramics factory. The sculptural forms from another dimension receive an glaze that comes from this tableware factory. Two eras caricature a future and a past, between which she slides in own present.

Joël Riff