Claire Cosnefroy, in February, in Arles. The objects of Claire Cosnefroy seem carved in stone, which remind the slabs of the church or the limestone walls of Provence eroded by rain and wind, which have fascinated it, confied, since it was established in Arles, southern France.
In 2020, this versatile artist, who sails between fashion and music, finished his career as a printed journalist and left Paris to devote himself to ceramics. “Fashion is an applied art, subject to many limitations. I could no longer bear perpetual stress, orders, hierarchy. I needed to connect again with a more instinctive process. Working with clay bases you on reality, on time.”
After training in Burgundy, it resorted to creating everyday objects using the rolling technique, in stoneware or porcelain, with timeless forms, “as from another place”, without angles or edges. Sculptural wall lights, wavy spider lamps with up to 10 branches: “They are what let me know”, but also vases or auxiliary table stools.
A lamp of Dance Collection. 
His unique pieces, made to the order, attract the attention of the interior architects and the young galleries (Inanimés, in Marseille or La Lune, in Dijon). To give them their mineral appearance, the ceramist covers them with a white slip and then polish them with bee wax. “I am looking for that polished effect, that brightness that catches the light, creates the shadow game and makes the themes seem that they have always been done in the leg.”
These days, she is expanding her practice to include furniture. At the request of the La Lune Gallery and in collaboration with Atelier Pesmois, he imagined In Attempt (“In Waiting”), a walnut sideboard adorned with ceramic doors, followed by a cabinet, a kind of high buffet, In Attempt IIPresented by La Lune, along with other pieces of the creator, in the vague gallery, in Arles, until May 2.
“I worked together the clay slabs, juxtaposing them to creative continuity in the form.” Hollow, they are “built as a cave” and are modeled on the surface with fingers, then with a pencil pencil and an engraving brush, such as a low relief. Or, in his words, “a stone block in suspension.”
The Lune Gallery website and the Instagram account of the vague gallery.
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