Porcelain and clay is to me a matter of traces/marks left and Memory. Any trace/mark is somehow an information that could vanish and wich gets meaning to someone can identifie it...geological and archeologicol approach of ceramic art.

"At the edge of freedom and knowledge about raw materials, Benoit POUPLARD associates the liquid and the solid, shadiness and brightness, heat and coldness, softness and roughness, heavyness and ligthness, the balance and the overhang. This almost irreverent setting of mythical materials, porcelain and celadon glazes, mixed up, prepared, transformed...it's a wonderfull way of overthrowing tradition, to shake up the codes and open new horizons". Loic DUFOUR, OTHER CAPS Gallery

My practice of ceramic art is experimental, born out from an encounter with celadon glazes and porcelain, inspired by mythology and great polar explorations. I draw on my past scientific experience, my sensitivity to ecological issues and my fascination with the different prysical states of water ans its memory. I trie to crystallize the moving material, to freeze the liquid element by means of high firing.
"experimental music is a music we do not know what il will become when it is performed...to compose with four phonographs, it is like building up music with internal combustion engines, wind blowing, heartbeats ans landslides" John CAGE

Following Masamishi Yoshikawa' s footsteps, I have chosen the blue : blue sky, ice blue, this color refers to everything around us, in the field of fugacity, grandeur, the loneliness of Nature offered "in the midst of its infinite clarity" (Yves Klein). Calm, peacefull, distant, almost neutral, the blue refers to dreams of course...perhaps something anesthetic...despite the urgency...game of contradictions and opposites. The physical depth of my blueish celadon glazes becomes a gateway to the immensity of an inner world. Celadon, in its opalescence, sensual and silky reflection, does not reflect light, it feeds on world images and enriches it.