Daniel Lacroix

“My sculptures do not flatter the eye: they challenge, confront and resonate with the coldness of urban forms, the silence of industrial materials and the ever widening gap between humans.

At the core of this approach is slow, ancient, unbridled wood-firing. Fire leaves a mark – it carves out, marks, colours and sculpts. Every shade, every rough edge is a glowing scar, a memory etched into the very flesh of the clay. These works are marked by the stigmata of time, fire and the world, and they bear witness to humanity’s struggle, a searching for authenticity in a present that has almost become virtual.”