Amandine Maas

Born in 1990 in Longjumeau, Amandine Maas is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (2014). Amandine Maas engages her practice towards a sensible narrative figuration, carrying open archetypal images, through ceramic work between painting and sculpture. After a period of painting and performance, she turns to clay, the original material of art, which she sculpts, engraves and paints according to the visions that emerge from her mental and actual landscape. Her ceramics spring from the wall like imposing image-boxes, whose shifting contours reinforce the dynamism of the figures and colours. Echoing the millennia-old Mesopotamian clay tablets, the artist draws the imaginary and everyday world that shapes her existence, offering the viewer an unfiltered narrative to contemplate humbly and without pretense. Drawing on an inventory of signs, symbols and figures combining ancient art history and contemporary popular references, Amandine Maas creates a light, gentle and comforting body of work, in a discreet attempt to appropriate the unstable flows of the visible.