DESIRE  DISASTER

After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (London) in 2018, Hannah Doucet trained in ceramics in Mexico City and London. Returning to Paris, where she is from, she opened her studio in Aubervilliers in September 2024. Passionate about creating art objects, she has trained in many aspects of production, from researching and collecting her own materials to the finer details of finishing. In the workshop, she builds all her own furniture and most of her own tools. The ten years she spent abroad enabled her to develop her vision of ceramics by collaborating with numerous artists, and to gain invaluable experience of working in the studio.

Through her project Desire Disaster, Hannah Doucet aims to express a contemporary approach to ceramic. For her, hand building needs to be redefined as sculpture. This approach takes the form of a mix of techniques, using clay, pigments, glazes and inclusions of moulded, sculpted, textile or printed elements. The studio is an experimental space that finds its energy in collaboration.

In her search for strange, hybrid and sensual forms, she combines metallic textures and unglazed clay to create tactile contrasts and finely worked pieces. She gives life to the inert and sublimates the commonplace. Her pieces explore a poetic and digital approach to the disorder of everyday urban life. Her objects are bound together by their simple proximity, creating surprising associations, poetic and absurd images.

The name of the project, Desire Disaster, is a play on the etymology that these two words share. Desire, from the Latin desideratio, is the desire to contemplate a star, the nostalgia for the starry sky; disaster, from the Italian dis-astro, is an ominous star. Desire is the desire for otherness, disaster the path to reach it.

It's this idea that resonates in her approach to creation and life. She finds in materials, textures and the everyday a vibrant force that opposes the tension of creating and materialising new ideas.

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