EB#18
2025
In 2023, we met Louis Lefebvre at a vernissage at Pierre Passebon's. While discussing our shared passion for ancient ceramics, he told us that his family had been dealers in faience and porcelain for five generations, and now six with his son Lucas. Louis told us about the transformation of his parents' antique gallery into a contemporary ceramics gallery and the residency he created in Versailles nearly ten years ago to welcome artists from around the world.
Appreciating our collages and following our desire, he proposed that we move from photography to ceramics. The exhibition Contre Espaces is the result of this residency and our first work in ceramics.
Contre Espaces is part of a broader work around Italian and French gardens. The various ceramic pieces presented draw their inspiration from topiaries or geometrically trimmed hedges that organize labyrinths or paths of boxwood, yew, or hornbeam. The work on the often irregular and changing glaze imitates the shimmering of light on foliage. Each piece, through its presence and voids, plays with the notions of fullness and counter-form, inviting a permanent reconfiguration of space.
The whole, which can be thought of as a visual score, questions the notion of "counter-space": a modular system where the rigor of structural lines meets the fluidity of materials and colors. Like ephemeral architecture, these elements come together to draw a mental landscape, between order and movement, where each arrangement reveals a new reading of balance.
Ceramic Brussels 2027, (solo show)
Acquisition, Les Manufactures Nationales, Sèvres - Mobilier national, 2026 campaigns
Galerie Lefebvre & Fils (Paris), 2025, (solo show)
