Emmanuelle Roule

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1984 in Saint-Étienne, lives and works in Paris

Graduate of the National School of Applied Arts and Crafts of Paris (Olivier de Serres), Emmanuelle Roule is an artist and designer. In 2007, she founded her studio in Paris, developing a transversal and multidisciplinary approach between graphic design, design and artistic direction. Since 2012, she has been researching ceramic material, questioning volume and material through modeling with a strong architectural dimension. Each piece is unique, they do not fit in series but in declensions resulting from an experimental process. They are the result of an exploratory, artistic work conducted around the light, texture and color that relate to each other and to the surrounding space - the geography of form. In addition to her personal practice, Emmanuelle co-founded in 2017 with 3 other ceramic artists, a workshop and a collective, named gangster, based in Paris in the district of Bastille.

APPROACH

Passionate about architecture (industrial, pavilion, brutalist...) -from here and elsewhere-, my work questions through these micro-architectures the question of space: of one's own space and the space of the other; the notions of circulation and cohabitation.
To apprehend the connections as much in the symbiosis as in the ambivalence, between materials, forms in order to question the very notion of otherness, cultivating the randomness of the revelation of the colors in the invisible of the firings and the furnace.

The otherness is linked to a spatial dimension. This duality, this confrontation is highlighted in the pieces by the play, in particular, of light and chiaroscuro; in particular in connection with the MA_ . Japanese term meaning "interval" in the notions of time, space... Ma is an aesthetic that refers to the subjective variations of emptiness, of silence. The way in which, notably in architecture, the shadow draws another form, a counter-form which is like a transition, a complement, a balance, which underlines the whole. There is not an absence, there is a relation.