À l'accélération et à l'oubli
Originally from Valenciennes, Jérôme Hirson discovered ceramics after an initial career in the automotive industry. Deeply influenced by his encounter with Dauphine Scalbert, he trained under her before opening his own studio in 2010. His work has been exhibited in La Borne, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, at the Révélations fair in Paris, as well as in alternative venues such as Le Camoufleur in Lille and Thierry Boutemy’s studio in Brussels.
His practice, deliberately removed from wheel-throwing, favors hand-modeling as a direct dialogue with the material. Working primarily with stoneware, he creates understated, undecorated pieces in which clean lines and imperfect surfaces convey a raw, timeless aesthetic. Also working as a sculptor, he extends these gestures into fragments of industrial landscapes – smoke-marked bricks – while introducing more sensitive forms through irregular blocks of an almost childlike whiteness. Balancing harshness and softness, his work evokes a lived materiality shaped by both memory and reconstruction.
