5500€
Big Black II
Héloïse Piraud
Black sandstone
43 x 40 cm
Unique
Big Black is a series of large black stoneware pieces composed of a multitude of identical elements extruded and assembled in a repetitive manner, alternating between braiding, superimpositions and twists.
These pieces aim to create an impression of movement and infinity through a play of lines and contrasts.

Born in Paris and graduated from the Sorbonne Paris IV in Art History. I completed a sculpture course specialising in earthenware modelling at Les Ateliers de Paris. I regularly train during masterclass, especially with Shozo Michikawa.
I work with the extruder, which, by means of pressure, decides the aspect of each elements of the piece that I then assemble. Since I discovered this tool, it has became the technical impulse of each of my pieces. This «idea developing machine» also represents what interests me in ceramics today. Part of my research is aimed at questioning the properties and limits of clay. The extruder allows me to give my ceramics an impulse and to give outlets and possibilities to my ceramics.
In appearance soft and irresistible, the shape of my pieces might lead one to believe that it would make for a cosy nest to curl up in, but in reality, as one gets closer, it is hard, fragile and icy, or perhaps the very opposite.