Clémentine Vaultier

Clémentine Vaultier is a French artist based in Brussels. Although trained as a ceramist, her interest lies more in the surroundings of the fire than in the production it engenders. Her long-term research focuses on how we raise, use, and diffuse warmth, connecting the worlds of ceramics, performance, and pedagogy, both literally around the fire and through documentation. The creation, collection, and (re-)arranging of technical, historical, and archival materials in dialogue with others allows her to create narratives around warmth as both a basic human need and a conceptual phenomenon. In doing so, Vaultier’s practice is necessarily plural, interactive, and intended to keep the fire burning.