French ceramic artist Claire Lindner recently presented a new series of abstract sculptures that visually play with the viewer’s mind. Resembling a bundle of intertwined limp hoses, her pieces also give out a sense of living organisms caught in the moment of color change and about to regain their movement.
The intrigue that her sculptures evoke has to do with the way Lindner approaches her creative process. According to the artist herself, the goal of these unusual pieces is to combine the imagery of vegetation, the animal world, and the human body into a single piece. She manages to achieve this by considering them to be “made of the same substance.”
Lindner, who graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, has an idea and a basic sketch before commencing the work on a particular sculpture. However, in line with the organic feel that her pieces project, she allows the material to guide her to the sculpture’s final look.
“I have to be attentive to its tensions, folds, and plasticity in order to make a form that will “flow” and tell an interesting story,” she explained in a recent chat with Colossal.
Lindner’s works have found homes in galleries across Europe, but they are also available on her social media. Check out more of them below.
