Pascale Girardin, recipient of many a prize and bursary, is a creative designer and ceramist known for her many architectural art installations. Using her favourite material, clay, she has created a paean to the substance, paying tribute to its sensitive surface and its incredible memory, which captures the material's spirit and sets its past motion in stone with a final shape that's forged in fire.
Au pied des grumes is a contemplative piece. The analogy of a forest can be seen in the vertical structures that reach powerfully skyward while its staggered silhouettes represent the process of change and evolution over time. Being in a bustling location, this static work of art invites us to stop for a moment and engage in an inner, intuitive dialogue with an object that subtly mirrors our fundamental relationship with nature.
