Gabrielle Carrère

Cruce Program April 2021
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Gabrielle has made a series of clay sculptures in which she presents expressions of the life-death cycle.

As a ceramic artist, Gabrielle is interested in unbaked clay as a fickle material capable of not only taking multiple forms, but also dissolving in water and becoming something new. She questions why we consider inert something that is capable of transformation.

Along this month, Gabrielle has created two recumbent creatures —the sheep and the man— and two expressions of life —a burial mound of flowers that alludes to spring where everything resurfaces, and an embrace of two bodies.

After some time reflecting on the topic of death, she now introduces the idea of ​​a cycle in which, like clay, everything that vanishes comes to life in another way.