Valérie Blaize
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Valérie Blaize has been a ceramic artist for over fifteen years. Her practice, centred on decoration and storytelling, has progressively expanded to include drawing, performance, and immersive installation. Ceramics remains the primary medium of her work: each piece of porcelain or stoneware becomes the support for a singular composition, akin to a collage, where repurposed words and images meet the glazed surface. Her graphic work, nourished by a daily drawing practice, runs through her entire approach, with language holding a central place. The assembly and repurposing of everyday objects are equally at the heart of her research: by drawing on the familiar, she invites the viewer to enter the work, to handle it, to leave their own mark upon it. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, she has coordinated several multidisciplinary projects in collaboration with other artists, and has been co-performer alongside Jean-François Bourlard since 2014 in the performance À table.
In 2026, she presents 1400° at Galerie BAG in Bordeaux, a project born from the accidental destruction of her ceramic kiln, which reached temperatures exceeding 1400°C before destroying itself along with its entire load.
Her work — prolific and always in motion — reflects a relentless curiosity and a rare ability to continually push the boundaries of her research into new territory.
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