Overview
Jonas Moënne uses ceramics as a pretext to question the status of the earth.
A French artist living and working in Brussels, Moënne is interested in the history and folklore of the Alpine valleys of his childhood. His work is rooted in his family's watchmaking and farming traditions.
It's a deeply earthy universe, and it's this earth, as a material, that the artist decided to explore when he moved to Brussels to attend La Cambre, after La Villa Arson in Nice. In the course of his studies, Jonas Moënne firmly established the practice of ceramics within contemporary art, and took possession of the medium with the determination to take it elsewhere, where it is least expected, in a powerful approach where alchemy rubs shoulders with daydreaming.
It's an invitation to look at the world differently, boldly and offbeatly, and to think differently.
It's an invitation to look at the world differently, boldly and offbeatly, and to think differently.
- Estelle Spoto
His practice is rooted in the deviation of time, in the construction of strata that did not exist before his intervention. For him, the farm is a matrix of fictions, providing him with a reservoir of plastic ideas that he readily describes as "inexhaustible".
Exhibitions
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AU-DELÀ DE LA VILLE
JONAS MOËNNE 19 September - 28 November 2026In Europe, the majority of the population lives in cities, with only a quarter living in rural areas. The contrast is even more striking in Belgium, where 98% of the...Read more -
YOUNG BELGIUM OPUS II
FICTION(S) 17 March - 13 May 2023Preciously preserved by the interior darkness of the caves that house them, pre-historical paintings show just how essential it was for our ancestors to give account of their daily lives....Read more
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