Portrait avec céramique

Born 1990, lives and works in Marseille, France.

Léa Caïe explores the functionality of objects, along with the constraints and challenges they entail.
For her, function becomes a pretext — a modest way of seeking beauty, a value both universal and deeply personal.

Her creative process arises from a sense of lack, from the experience of an insurmountable gap in language, and from the difficulty of communication.
Through ceramics, she has found another language — silent and slow, built over time, existing beyond conventions and social norms.

Each of her pieces is a wager on the possibility of dialogue, an open fracture in the existential solitude we all carry within us.

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  • 2025 : “Fabriqué à Marseille” Label Award, Home category
  • 2020 – 2023 : Ceramist residency, Maison Revel, Pôle des métiers d’art d’Est-Ensemble, Pantin, France
  • 2019 – 2020 : Collective workshop, Pottery Hive, Paris, France
  • 2019 : Ceramist residency, The Bruckner Foundation, Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2017 – 2019 : Education, with Grégoire Scalabre, Paris, France

Contact

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