ANNEAGMA

Anne AGBADOU-MASSON is a ceramic sculptor.

Working under the name Anneagma, her relationship with clay is very intimate. It was in 2015 that she first encountered with this fascinating material. Originally formless, clay is shaped by human action, its materiality emanating from our own energy. When fired, fire radically transforms the material. By becoming a real language, clay is getting vital to her. This relationship with the tactile and the sensitive allows her to return to the essential, to « forgotten instinct ».

Her introspective approach leads her to think and and build connection between the West and sub-Saharan Africa, exploring the theme of genetic memory. Thanks to her multicultural background, Anne creates unique pieces, almost as if they have emerged from the depths or centuries past. These highly defined figures, combining ancestral know-how with a contemporary point of view, require great technical skill and exude a powerful presence. These pieces, called Migrant Objects, seem to tell us about history, reminding us not to forget.

Presentation taken from the text by Anne Agbadou-Masson.