Clara Denidet's steel wire handle cup

Steel wire cup handmade by Clara Denidet. Unique piece.

Born in 1991 in Cosne sur Loire, Clara Denidet lives and works in Puisaye.

"My interest in what the object says teaches me things.
It is a form of decentralized attention which applies itself to flushing out this capacity to “cope with”.
Far from being a resigned outcome, the act of composing, of tinkering, is something magical*.
When it is used to do what it was not intended for, to be what it is not, when it becomes a symbol, a tool, a language or a witness, when it is transmitted, used, transformed, the object is a catch.
Looking at the object is a discreet way of studying its users.
Everyone deploys a host of daily tactics, habits and rituals in the face of chaos that form the basis of our ways of inhabiting an environment. (Building a solid framework involves "touching wood.")
My work is as much about anthropological research as it is about empirical tinkering.
In the cohabitation of these two areas, I seek access to this internal and collective knowledge, that which is housed in the use of language, of objects, of everyday life...
Those that are learned and made. The ordinary world, micro-history becomes a field of research where intuition would become a measuring tool, art an exact science. It is also about presuming links between things, betting on their echoes as one would try to cast spells."

* Art lies halfway between scientific knowledge and mythical or magical thinking;
because everyone knows that the artist is both a scholar and a handyman: with artisanal means, he makes a material object which is at the same time an object of knowledge.
Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, 1962

Dimensions: D 24.5 cm x D with handles 28.5 x H 17 cm
Material: Steel wire

€700,00