Contact

 info@desiredisaster.com
      @Desire.Disaster

25, Rue Gaétan Lamy
93 500 Aubervilliers
The Studio
Located in Aubervilliers, near Paris, Desire Disaster studio is dedicated to the production of art objects in ceramic. The project was founded in 2024 by Hannah Doucet.

Services
  • Production
  • Consultancy
  • Kiln and equipement hire
  • Privatisation

Collaborators
Management: Dora-May Libakou
Marketing: Charlie Andreota
Artistic Direction: Corneille Sangi Vimpy
Photography:
Hervé Bossy
Emma Vovk
Hannah Doucet






The Residents

Louise Mallein
Since January 2025
Formée en sculpture céramique aux Beaux-Arts de Lisbonne, Louise affine son savoir-faire à Porto, au sein de l’atelier Brâmica. L'artisane y explore différentes techniques comme le pincé, le colombin et la plaque, tout en développant un regard sensible sur l’émaillage.

Celle-ci façonne la terre avec maîtrise et précision. Inspirée par la dualité des matières, elle joue avec la porcelaine blanche et la terre noire pour façonner des objets du quotidien. Vases, tasses, autres objets utilitaires : chaque création traduit sa quête de la parfaite imperfection.
Evans Mbugua
February 2025
Evans Mbugua is a visual artist whose work reflects a life lived across cultures. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, and based in France since 1999, he builds a vibrant visual language shaped by personal memory, cultural hybridity, and human connection.

His paintings combine colorful, hand-designed patterns created from pictograms gathered over years of travel and observation with portraits of family and friends in moments of joy, play, and everyday intimacy. As Mbugua says, “everything that I am comes from what I’ve smelled, tasted, heard or seen, what I’ve read, where I’ve been, who I’ve met.”

At the studio, Evans turned his eye, umbrella and character pictograms into black clay. Thirty ceramic eyes were used in his installation Sous nos Yeux, presented at the Galerie La La Land in May 2025. The texture of the unglazed clay contrasts joyously with the brightly coloured fragments of his acrylic paintings.

www.evansmbugua.com
2025 ©Hannah Doucet