Anneagma

Anne AGBADOU-MASSON is a sculptor and ceramist.

Working under the name Anneagma, her relationship with the earth is very intimate. In 2015, her encounter with this material fascinated her: earth is a formless material that draws its shape from our action, our own energy, and whose fire ensures a radical transformation. As a language, earth is vital to her. This relationship with touch, with the sensitive, enables her to return to the essential, to the "forgotten instinct".

Her introspection, which compels her to build a bridge between the West and sub-Saharan Africa, allows her to take an interest in genetic memory. Drawing on her cross-fertilization of cultures, Anne creates unique pieces that seem to emerge from the depths of the earth or from centuries gone by. These highly designed figures, combining ancestral know-how with a contemporary viewpoint, demand a high degree of technical skill, and exude a powerful whole. These pieces, called Migrant Objects seem to tell us about history, as if to remind us not to forget.

Presentation based on text by Anne Agbadou-Masson.