Agathe Brahami Ferron

Agathe Brahami Ferron (b. 1992) is a ceramic artist from Paris. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts of Paris in 2016. She moved her studio from Paris to the island of Oléron in 2024, on the Atlantic Coast.

Ceramics are at the heart of Agathe Braha- mi Ferron’s artistic practice: she has made a name for herself in particular for her life-size enamelled figures. In 2018, she won first prize at the 12th Biennale de la Jeune Création de la Graineterie, the art center of the town of Houilles (78), which offered her the oppor- tunity to present a solo show within its walls (Woolloomooloo Bay), in 2019. More recent- ly, her work was featured at the Biennale de Paname 2023, in Saint-Ouen.

Her ceramics – single-storey figures, busts and totems – combine the poetic with the absurd, and explore the tension between so- cialization and individualization, the process

of differentiation essential to the construc- tion of an external and possibly critical gaze. Agathe Brahami Ferron draws her aesthet-
ic inspiration from the work of Martin Parr, Ulrich Seidl, Yann Lagarde... Very attached to the technical dimension and to the enhance- ment of the art of ceramics, she also relies on the works of Roland Barthes, Eva Illouz or Jean Didier Urbain, to document her prac- tice.

Not without a sense of humor, she denounces a consumer society that glorifies self-impor- tance, the cult of personal well-being and the concept of a healthy mind in a healthy body. Beyond ceramics, her work explores the subject of painted sculpture, of three-dimen- sional painting.