Ingrid Montier

A potter, Ingrid works with clay. She uses it primarily on her wheel, an axis from which she creates forms that she combines, assembles, and connects in space. The sculptural syntax she creates plays with the in situ, responding to architecture while asserting its own language. This language draws on formal typologies that invoke geometry, mechanics, and plumbing—a world of pipes, technical curves, and concrete connections. In her work, based on the notions of encounter and circulation, the installation reveals itself as a place of plastic exploration in its own right. It unfolds like a vast playground where its pieces interact with one another, creating subtle conversations between the lines of its volumes and their immediate environment. These spatial arrangements constitute places where dynamics in tension appear: sculptural objects spring forth, dancing, from the floor to the walls, all the way to the ceiling. Stable and unstable, anchored and suspended at the same time, the forms seem to inhabit the space in a transitory manner, in a precarious balance. In Ingrid's work, the earth is a space of freedom, sometimes significant by its very material, sometimes signified by the form. The wheel, finally, is not just a tool: it is the starting point for an existential reflection. A way of being in the world, of sketching new logics of balance, hands in the earth