The Centre:

Established in 1971, the Bonsecours Ceramics Centre is a space dedicated to training, research, creation, and the diffusion of contemporary ceramics. In the summer of 2025, I had the opportunity to occupy their studios for a two-month period to initiate an installation project on the theme CITY. The residency project may continue in the summer of 2026 with the development of multiple forms/masses which, once assembled, will constitute an overall plan of the CITY—likely at a different scale, more spread out, and presented from an aerial viewpoint.

Approach:

An architectural sculpture with brutalist accents, this formal research explores the balance between mass and verticality. Through a rigorous interplay of orthogonal volumes, the forms evoke an abstract, almost urban silhouette. Each element appears both autonomous and inseparable from the whole, creating a tension between grounding and upward momentum. Inspired by the languages of modernism and constructivism, each structure partly reflects an imagined city—dense, rugged, and silent—where raw form becomes poetry.