Each year CERCCO proposes two residences Workspace at CERCCO, of three months to artists, designers, architects and ceramists wishing to develop a personal ceramic project.
The French designer Priscille Jotzu worked at CERCCO's Workspace during the academic year 2020-2021.
‘Facsimilé’ is the name of a material field research that I want to undertake on reliefs, surfacing and engraving technics.
It is based on the heritage behind the Portland vase. It focuses on glass and ceramic, notably due to their striking visual resemblance at work in the Portland vase(s), to uncover specific know-how, technics and production processes. The aim is to explore the contemporaneity of the formely used technics to create historical pieces, by revisiting and playing with ancient aesthetic and manual methods
I explored the similarities between mat glass with glaze biscuit applications, the cameo glass technic and the Wedgwood ceramic made of earthenware and matt sandstone biscuit, and even more specifically the Jasperware technic. From an outer look, the resemblance is shrinking.