My work focuses on the ordinary and muted violence of our intertwined stories. It is rooted in the more or less fortunate encounters that have colored human trajectories throughout History. In the kinds of engagements in which uneven power relations occur, I seek out creative resistances within everyday life. I explore notions of hospitality, mobility and hybridity through the imaginary of the home.

I have chosen ceramics as my material of choice for the stories it can tell as a witness of human History. It bears the oldest traces of human activity on earth, both as man-made objects but also as part of the environment our ancestor walked in. Clay can preserve the passage of a being by the river side. Even today, it is as much a domestic material, integrated into our daily lives, as a high-tech material at the service of space exploration. To me, it represent an infinite source of creation.

My curiosity is my guide. I always marvel at the fact that nothing is immutable, and that everything comes from further afield.

Manon Vallé is a multidisciplinary artist whose preferred medium is ceramics.

She studied at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges, where she started working with clay and fire. She spent a lot of time in the neighboring village of La Borne, a stronghold of wood-firing, and became passionate about building wood-fired kilns. She will graduate from ENSA Bourges in 2019 and continue her professional training at the Maison De la Céramique du Pays de Dieulefit.

She devotes her time to perfecting her art, while at the same time getting involved in a number of collective projects in very different disciplines such as a radio performance and a Ready-to-play art event. She enjoys travelling around the world, deepening her understanding of clay, art and human ingeniosity.

Her practice oscillates between phases of investigation and research, and sculptural or graphic forms in which she re-injects her observations.

She lives and works in Bourges.