(France, 1983) 

Emilie Lisi moves between ceramics, art, design and embroidery with a special attention to the concreteness of the object and, at the same time, to the relational value beyond form. In her compositional process, we find raw and refined lands, pure and variegated, in a mixture that leads to the alchemical. A deep half-breed that the author obsessively molds and shapes terracotta inside and out, alternating refined craftsmanship and a restless intuition for the invisible core of objects. 

Lisi’s compositions grow in an atmosphere of continuous experimentation; the fragility of the material suggests directions, shape, architecture and color. Thus, her energy-charged sculptures are born between cavities and convex spaces that recall fragments of bodies, ears, animals. A link with primitivism is evident: the ancestral forms shift the center of gravity on the functional level of the rite while the material shows hammering, controlled cracks, broken edges projecting us into an almost archaeological dimension. The succession of trapped rings or left sauvage re- minds us of the typical shelling of certain spiritual actions. 

In primitive cultures, amulets catalyze natural energies by connecting us to the hidden, the invisible. Emilie’s ceramics, in their elegance and formal power, maintain mysterious sides, reverse embroidery, dark hollows revealing themselves to be fragile buildings of the intimate.