Léna Gayaud

Based in the Cévennes region since her early childhood, Léna Gayaud is part of this scene of artists who tend to connect the content of their works to their contexts of production. Testifying to the quest, or rather the trial and error, her creative process stems from the journeys that the artist makes on her territory. Inspired by the medieval architectural environment and the mystical legends of the forest, she retranscribes this narrative imaginary within her ceramics. In her practice at the junction of craft and magic, she reappropriates ancient myths and knightly attributes to create a personal narrative and deconstruct symbols that are historically exclusively masculine. Sensitive to Clovis Maillet’s research on questions of gender and identity in the Middle Ages, but also about ceramics, she questions art history and social history through her medium and references.