Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in France by renowned Dubai-based Irish ceramicist Michael Rice. Through a selection of around twenty recent works, he explores the intersection of material memory and form in a series of sculptural vases that constitute a brilliantly radical body of work.

Michael Rice’s approach can be seen as a reflection on the boundaries between utilitarian objects and sculpture. Drawing from the formal vocabulary of traditional pottery - mainly vases, but also bowls and vessels - the artist shifts their scale, lending these forms a singular presence. An intensely colored glaze, with textures inspired by coral structures, metamorphoses their surface, accentuates their volume, and asserts their sculptural power. Stripped of their functional purpose, these pieces acquire a true sculptural dimension, where the memory of ceramic forms dialogues with the organic world in a resolutely contemporary artistic language.

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