Adelie Ducasse

Adélie Ducasse is a French artist and designer whose ceramic practice moves between sculpture and function. She grew up in New Caledonia and Réunion, where she developed her taste for colour and primitive shapes, and studied mathematics at university, a training she credits for the abstract thinking behind her compositions.

Her modular ceramic lamps, named after cities such as Milano, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Tokyo and Dallas, are modelled as sculptures first and then given light and purpose, while her paintings build geometric abstractions as logical sequences that can be modulated indefinitely. Keeping a childlike spirit is the stated intention of the work, a colourful and playful universe drawn from the spontaneity of childhood and its games.