Galerie Meubles et Lumières is pleased to invite the artist Mireille Moser and to present, for the first time within its walls, an exhibition devoted to contemporary ceramics.

Born in Switzerland, Mireille Moser entered the Beaux-Arts in Geneva at the age of fifteen. Disappointed by a teaching of sculpture she found overly conceptual in the early 1970s, she discovered ceramics and was immediately drawn to this discipline, which offered the pragmatism and concreteness she was seeking. Graduating from the Arts Décoratifs in 1976, she soon established her own studio in Geneva. Alongside her practice as a ceramicist, she also took part in the city’s cultural life, contributing to the direction of the gallery of the Centre Genevois des Arts Appliqués, where she organized numerous exhibitions and projects, enriching herself through exchanges with artists from diverse backgrounds.

After these dynamic years in Geneva, her move to France in 1987 reflected a desire for solitude and a more personal path. She settled in Rochebaudin, a village in the Drôme, whose contemplative landscape of valleys, cliffs, and fields became a true source of inspiration. For nearly forty years, Mireille Moser has pursued an untiring exploration of ceramics, refusing repetitive production and considering each work a new adventure. She even developed her own techniques, including modeling with double-walled slabs, which gives her pieces greater amplitude and density.

Initially focused on volume, she came only later to combine volume with color, a subtle alliance that now defines her most recent works. Her process begins with slabs of chamotte and iron-rich stoneware, which she shapes and then covers with a porcelain slip colored with oxides, applied with brush, cloth, or even her fingers. Like a painter, she composes with color, sometimes accentuating volume by scoring the surface. Reduction firing and touches of glaze complete the process, revealing deep tones enhanced by the iron contained in the clay.

At times vivid and colorful, at others matte black, architectural in form or geometric in motif, her ceramics embody the artist’s most recent explorations. They are on view at the gallery from March 17 to April 30, 2016.