Margaux Vié: Selected works, 2025-2026
Margaux Vié’s sculptures are composed of stacked and assembled modules. She models, cuts, shapes, assembles and constructs these white earthenware forms through a long meditative process in which thought and intuition guide the making. The contours of the works emerge as much through their voids as through their solids, with multiple elements grafted onto a central axis.
Through a play of balance and verticality, forms rest, slide and interlock with one another to create autonomous assemblages. These structures form the basis of a singular visual language in which each element finds its place within a system in perpetual variation. Each module can be understood as an independent unit; assembled together, they produce forms that interact with one another and construct their own silent syntax.
Color occupies an essential place within this sculptural grammar. It appears in touches, flat areas or softer transitions achieved through low-temperature firing. The stillness of the ensembles resonates with the vibration of the details applied to their surfaces. Before glazing, Margaux develops her palettes through multiple tests on small clay tiles, exploring combinations almost like a puzzle. This research, like the modeling process itself, stems from an intuitive and demanding search for balance, where each relationship between colors is tested, adjusted and almost listened to.
After firing, the sculptures find their continuation outside the studio, through encounters with places, light, bodies and resonances that shift and activate them differently. This encounter becomes an essential stage of the process, as though each piece still called for another form of completion by finding its rightful place elsewhere.
Her work asserts a strong sculptural ambition: to create objects that evoke as much as they impose themselves. Presences.
Photos by Margaux Vié
Captions
- Group view of selected sculptures from the Présences series, 2025–2026, glazed earthenware
- Fragment series, 2025–2026, glazed earthenware, modular sculptures composed of two interchangeable elements, 10–15 cm each
- Presence 24 (4 modules), 2025, glazed earthenware, 78 x 30 cm
- Presence 24 (detail), 2025, glazed earthenware, 78 x 30 cm
- Presence 24 (decomposed view), 2025, glazed earthenware, 78 x 30 cm
- Presence 6, 2025, glazed earthenware, 40 x 22 cm
- Presence 6 (detail), 2025, glazed earthenware, 40 x 22 cm
- Presence 8, 2025, glazed earthenware, 27 x 20 cm
- Presence 9, 2025, glazed earthenware, 38 x 22 cm
- Presence 10, 2025, glazed earthenware, 38 x 22 cm
- Presence 11, 2025, glazed earthenware, 30 x 13 cm
- Presence 11 (module detail), 2025, glazed earthenware, 30 x 13 cm
- Presence 13, 2025, glazed earthenware, 38 x 28 cm
- Presence 14, 2025, glazed earthenware, 35 x 22 cm
- Presence 14 and Presence 11, 2025, glazed earthenware, 35 x 22 cm and 30 x 13 cm
- Presence 15, 2025, glazed earthenware, 26 x 22 cm
- Presence 15 (detail), 2025, glazed earthenware, 26 x 22 cm
- Presence 16, 2025, glazed earthenware, dimensions unknown
- Presence 16 (decomposed view), 2025, glazed earthenware, dimensions unknown
- Presence 16 (detail), 2025, glazed earthenware, dimensions unknown
- Presence 18, 2025, glazed earthenware, 17 x 21 cm
- Presence 19, 2025, glazed earthenware, 28 x 26 cm
- Presence 22, 2025, glazed earthenware, 65 x 27 cm
- Presence 22 (deconstructed view), 2025, glazed earthenware, 65 x 27 cm
- Presence 23, 2026, glazed earthenware, 68 x 28 cm
- Presence 26, 2026, glazed earthenware, 56 x 26 cm
- Presence 26 (deconstructed view), 2026, glazed earthenware, 56 x 26 cm
