Hello!
Moi c’est Dounia Chemsseddoha
Réceptive à la notion de paysage sensible mais aussi aux croyances populaires, à l’ésotérisme, aux rites et à la sacralité, je crée des céramiques sensibles et hybrides.
Je convoque le surnaturel et le spirituel en imaginant que les frontières se brouillent entre minéral, végétal, humain.e/non-humain.e.
Mes céramiques, reliques sorties d'un grotte imaginaire, sont des réceptacles aux formes organique qui peuvent recueillir ou distiller des élixirs olfactifs et curatifs.
Je les imagine comme des objets de rituels réactivés, imaginaires ou potentiels, à utiliser avec des huiles essentielles, des hydrolats de plantes odoroantes et médicinales, des eaux de fontaines miraculeuses.
Elles se font intercesseurs entre nos mondes intérieurs et les mondes invisibles. Je crois sincerement qu’il est possible d'animer ou réanimer nos émotions, nos questionnements, et nos propres conceptions du sacré et de la nature. Mes céramiques nous invitent à éveiller nos sens, à sonder les forces et les énergies qui nous entourent.
Toutes mes pièces sont fabriquées à la main dans mon atelier à Toulouse. J’utilise du grès blanc chamotté lisse. Les engobes et émaux sont garantis sans plomb.
Hello!
I’m Dounia Chemsseddoha.
Receptive to the notion of sensitive landscapes as well as popular beliefs, esotericism, rites, and sacredness, I create sensitive and hybrid ceramics.
I invoke the supernatural and the spiritual by imagining blurred boundaries between mineral, plant, human/non-human. My ceramics, relics from an imaginary cave, serve as receptacles with organic forms that can collect or distill olfactory and curative elixirs. I envision them as objects of reactivated, imaginary, or potential rituals, to be used with essential oils, hydrosols of fragrant and medicinal plants, and waters from miraculous springs.
They act as intermediaries between our inner worlds and the invisible realms. I genuinely believe it is possible to animate or reanimate our emotions, our questions, and our own conceptions of the sacred and nature. My ceramics invite us to awaken our senses and explore the forces and energies that surround us.
All my pieces are handmade in my studio in Toulouse. I use smooth white stoneware. The eogobes and glazes are guaranteed to be lead-free.
I’m Dounia Chemsseddoha.
Receptive to the notion of sensitive landscapes as well as popular beliefs, esotericism, rites, and sacredness, I create sensitive and hybrid ceramics.
I invoke the supernatural and the spiritual by imagining blurred boundaries between mineral, plant, human/non-human. My ceramics, relics from an imaginary cave, serve as receptacles with organic forms that can collect or distill olfactory and curative elixirs. I envision them as objects of reactivated, imaginary, or potential rituals, to be used with essential oils, hydrosols of fragrant and medicinal plants, and waters from miraculous springs.
They act as intermediaries between our inner worlds and the invisible realms. I genuinely believe it is possible to animate or reanimate our emotions, our questions, and our own conceptions of the sacred and nature. My ceramics invite us to awaken our senses and explore the forces and energies that surround us.
All my pieces are handmade in my studio in Toulouse. I use smooth white stoneware. The eogobes and glazes are guaranteed to be lead-free.