Julia Huteau fits between the oven and the screen. If it starts with digital drawings made on headphones and connected controllers in order to better defy gravity, which it then studies on a software to view things, it is to interpret this potential on paper with traditional graphic tools, and above all, by passing through a modelled model, to achieve a volume that it alone can produce. From the eyes to the fingers for this series  » Rebound « , a flow through his body in several stages extirpating virtual reality into reality. Thus, the objects are made from a turfed crucible earth, cut with thread and then assembled with slurry. Each involves a hundred or so bonding operations, showing recesses and curves that the printer cannot yet shape today. Moreover, its sandstone is chamotted, which indicates that it does not pass through a nozzle. The cooking gas result offers further evidence asserting a navigation between electronic imaging and hand to-do, between digital and digital. The surface exhibits a rough battered texture on which the glaze is ripe, contrary to the smooth and gummed aesthetics of artificial intelligence. To merge the best of the properties of both worlds, the artist moves between a nearby fablab and his workshop installed in an old pottery. Its forms from another dimension receive an enamel from this manufacture of dishes. Two eras caricature a future and a past, between which she slips her own present.
Joël Riff