ZONE 30 ART PUBLIC accueille Laure Gonthier

Conceived specifically for Zone 30, this project addresses the question of the future of matter through potential objects and emerging ceramic forms, assembled and captured before their final state. In this series, far from documenting finished works, the artist is interested in what comes before, what is waiting, what is becoming. The interplay of scales blurs reference points, and the elements interact without hierarchy, evoking the codes of the archive, the document and the montage. The result is a deliberate blurring between what exists and what is created, between what precedes the gesture - materialized by the artist's imprint in the first photograph of the series - and what follows. The exhibition unfolds like a story without beginning or end, a freeze frame in which the material is suspended at the heart of a continuous transformation, open to the potential of infinite results. The presence of a detail from the cover of Paul Bonifas's L'art du potier (1961) in the second image places the artist's work in a broader temporality. It refers back to her preferred medium, ceramics, between tradition and contemporaneity, polarities that recur in her practice. In this way, Laure Gonthier gives us an insight into her own creative process, making the studio as much a physical space as a mental one, a cradle of ideas, gestures and forms to come, where gaze and thoughts circulate freely between traces, fragments and projections - between past, present and future. Biography Based in the Vallée de Joux, Laure Gonthier graduated with a Master of Arts in Public Spheres from EDHEA in Sierre in 2023, after completing a DAS at the Centre d'expérimentation et de recherche en céramique contemporaine (CERCCO) at HEAD and studying ceramics at the Ecole des arts appliqués in Vevey. Since 2004, she has regularly visited China to hone her technical skills and forge links between tradition and contemporary art. A founding member of L-imprimerie in Lausanne and the LACS collective, she takes part in numerous collective projects, residencies and exhibitions. Her work is supported by the Ikea Foundation and has won Pro Helvetia's Prix de la relève. Her research focuses on the relationships between


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