Usine60
- Mathilde Herbinier
- May 2
- 2 min read
Usine 60 is a place of creation. A factory on a human scale, a laboratory for the transformation and materialization of ideas, where the objects created are vehicles, tools for reflection, pretexts for encounters and dialogue.
Ceramic artist Mélissa Fillion is preoccupied by our relationship with ourselves and our environment. Her work takes a sensitive look at the space and meaning that objects take up in our lives, and at the links we forge with and through them. Her objects are a gateway to everyday life.
Talking through objects.
Themes in her work are often inspired by events or stories that concern current affairs and the human condition. In their cohabitation, the works are presented as a corpus in a poetic, surrealist universe. Each series is generally linked to the others by a narrative thread and presented in an open symbolic framework.
Her practice is multi-faceted: utilitarian and sculptural production, mural projects and cultural mediation.
Most of her work is utilitarian. These include colorful mugs, cups, bowls and plates. One-off pieces and small series are turned or roller-machined, then cast in the round. Her playful objects are designed and colored with engobes. For her, the everyday object is first used as a canvas, a surface to paint and draw on. It begins as a small painting that illustrates or tells a story.
Her sculptural practice develops in parallel with her utilitarian production, often echoing the same formal referents and generally exploring the same themes and reflections. The two practices tend to respond to each other and cohabit.
She also has a keen interest in mural projects in cultural mediation. They appeal to her because of the encounters they generate, and because they offer a way out of the intimate relationship with the spectator to become generators of collective experience. Bringing creative work into the public space suggests a whole new dimension to dialogue, an aspect she is beginning to dwell on.
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