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This publication accompanies the exhibition Artifices instables, Histoires de céramiques, presented at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco – Villa Sauber and curated by Cristiano Raimondi.Featuring more than two hundred pieces, the project escapes the well-trodden art historical narratives that keep ceramics at the margins of the arts, and instead pays tribute to the medium and investigates it as a heterogeneous material capable of narrating multiple histories.

Taking as its starting point the creation of the first Ceramic Art Workshop of Monaco in the second half of the nineteenth century, the book portrays some of the leading figures in the Principality’s ceramic history—the Fischers, Albert Diato, and Eugène Baudin—and creates bridges and resonances with numerous artists, among them Johan Creten, Simone Fattal, George Ohr, Ron Nagle, Pablo Picasso, and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, some of whom may be distant in space and time, but nevertheless share deep connections and unexpected complicities.The book gathers more than a century of visions that this malleable medium has inspired, and mirrors ceramic artists in its aspiration to provoke a shift in perspective.

Edited by Cristiano RaimondiTexts by Cecilia Canziani, Valérie Da Costa, Chus Martínez, Cristiano Raimondi, and Agnès Roux.

Florence Cuschieri is a Franco-Maltese visual artist and author. Through a multidisciplinary practice combining photography, text, archives, installation, and oral storytelling, she explores the deep connections between memory and forgetting, identity and exile, the personal and the political. Inspired by her Maltese roots and fragments of "forgotten stories"—often personal and familial—she gives voice to marginalized narratives and examines social fractures through a documentary and poetic approach.
Her work, where body and voice, image and word intersect, is driven by a desire for emancipation and transmission. It has been published in M Le Monde, Der Greif, Gaze Magazine, and exhibited at numerous international festivals, such as Encontros da Imagem (Portugal), Revela’t (Spain), and the Athens Photo Festival (Greece). She won the Prix Jeune Photographie Occitanie – Images Singulières in 2021. In 2024, she was awarded the Regards du Grand Paris commission with the CNAP and Ateliers Médicis and received the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award.
Published in 2025, La Ronde des hirondelles is her first book.

Fusako Kodama (born in 1945 in Japan), studied photography under Seiiji Otsuji with Yasuhiro Ishimoto at the Kuwasawa Design School in Tokyo. Her works show the quintessential modernism of Kuwasawa Design, which incorporates Bauhaus education.

Christine Gössler was born in Austria in 1953. Christine studied art history before working as a radio documentary program-maker. She met Seichi Furuya in 1978, and began photographing at that time. After the birth of their son in 1981, she immersed herself in the world of theatre. While she began to show signs of schizophrenia. Christine committed suicide in East Berlin in 1985.

Cintia Tortosa Santisteban (born in 1989) is a Spanish photographer based in Kanagawa, Japan. Her formal education is in English literature, linguistics and education at the University of Granada (Spain) and Galway (Ireland). She is currently working as an English teacher in Japan. She has no formal background in photography or the arts. She has learned through books, the Internet and friends. She has been interested in visual arts since she was a kid but it wasn’t until the end of 2019 that she started taking it more seriously.

Vuyo Mabheka (born in 1999 in the rural town of Libode in the Eastern Cape, South Africa) lives in Thokoza, Johannesburg. In 2017, he discovered photography through the Of Soul and Joy project – a creative platform that aims to provide the township’s youth and its surroundings with professional skills in the field of photography. Vuyo Mabheka is the recipient of the 2023/2024 Images Vevey Special Jury Prize, and Popihuise series is exhibited at the Biennale Images Vevey 2024. Mabheka is represented by Afronova Gallery, Johannesburg

Rebecca Norris Webb (born in 1956 in Rushville, USA) lives and works between New York and Massachusetts. She often combines her words and images in her nine photography books, most notedly with her monograph “My Dakota“, an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly (2012), for which a solo exhibition of the work was shown at The Cleveland Museum of Art in 2015. An NEA grant recipient, she’s currently working on Badlands, an ongoing photography project in the Dakotas, as well as the upcoming book, “Glimmerings“, a selection of some three decades of her poetic photographs.

Lia Darjes (born in 1984 in Berlin) lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin. She studied at HAW Hamburg in the class of Ute Mahler. Lia Darjes became known with Tempora Morte, a documentary still life study that almost iconically exaggerates its subject, small market stalls at unofficial street markets in Kaliningrad. Her first monograph was published with this work. In 2018, Lia Darjes began teaching photography at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie. She has been running the institution together with photographer Jörg Brüggemann since 2023. She has been represented by Galerie Robert Morat since 2019.

Ciro Battiloro (born in 1984 in Torre del Greco) is an Italian photographer based in Napoli. He studied philosophy at The University of Naples Federico II and later on specialized in documentary photography. Ciro uses a very intimate approach: it is through everyday life that he tackles broader social thematics. His work has been published in several magazines and exhibited in various museums, galleries and festivals.

Mark Steinmetz (born in 1961 in New York) lives in Athens, Georgia. He graduated in photography from Yale University in 1986. Working mainly in series, his black-and-white photographs evoke a variety of subjects, from the innocence of small-town children and teenagers in the American Southeast, to the bustling streets of Paris and the peaceful landscapes of Italian towns. He is represented by Box Galerie (Brussels) and the Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York).

Irina Rozovsky (born in 1981 in Moscow) studied at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. She makes photographs of people and places, transforming external landscapes into interior states. She lives in Athens, Georgia, USA where she and her husband Mark Steinmetz run the photography workshop space The Humid. She is represented by CPM Gallery (Baltimore) and Box Galerie (Brussels).

Orfeo Tagiuri (born in 1991 in Brookline, MA, USA) lives and works in London. Orfeo’s practice spans from painting and drawing to performance, film, woodcarving, animation, and music. The artist has exhibited and performed internationally, including at Sapling Gallery, London (2021), MACRO, Rome (2021), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018) and at Fiorucci Art Trust’s Volcano Extravaganza (2016). In 2020 Orfeo was nominated for Bloomberg New Contemporaries award.

Alexandra Duprez (born in 1974 in Quimper) has lived and worked in Douarnenez. At the age of 16, Alexandra Duprez travelled to Australia. It was in this faraway land that she met Robin Hundt, a woman with a passion for Aboriginal art, who welcomed her into her home, whose walls were covered with canvases. It was a defining moment. From then on, Alexandra Duprez devoted herself to painting. On her return she enrolled at the Beaux-Arts in Quimper. She settled in Douarnenez, where she has lived and worked ever since. She is represented (selection) by COA gallery in Canada, HAGD gallery in Denmark, DYS gallery in Belgium, Pulp gallery and Tayloe Piggot gallery in the USA, Moving gallery in Holland. In 2015, she took part in the creation of the Plein-Jour gallery, which she has since co-directed.

Chinoko Sakamoto (born in 1992) is a Japanese ceramic artist who lives and works in Nagasaki, Japan.

Mikiko Hara (born in 1967 in Toyama Prefecture, Japan), studied at the Tokyo College of Photography and was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award in 2017. Mikiko Hara uses an Ikonta camera without a viewfinder, "The camera lens is more honest, simpler, more unruffled and unforgiving than my own eyes," she explains. She is represented by Miyako Yoshinaga gallery (New York, USA), Osiris (Tokyo, Japan) and Ibasho gallery (Antwerp, Belgium).

Daniel Gordon (born in 1980 in Boston) lives and works in Brooklyn.. He received a BA from Bard College, New York in 2003 before graduating with an MFA from Yale University in 2006. Moving between two and three-dimensions, Daniel Gordon’s practice appropriates images of still-life subjects he finds on the Internet. Printing the images on paper before cutting them out, he then assembles a three-dimensional tableau in the studio which is subsequently photographed, linking handmade and digital-based processes and materials. He is represented by Kasmin Gallery (New York), Shulamit Nazarian Gallery (Los Angeles) and Huxley—Parlour Gallery (London).

Moe Suzuki (born in Tokyo) studied photography at London College Communications, University of the Arts London.
Upon returning to Tokyo after the Great Eastern Earthquake in 2011, Moe Suzuki taught herself book-binding skills and started a career as a visual artist, working primarily with photography, mixed with archival images and illustrations to tell narratives in book form. Her work focuses on topics such as community life, people with disabilities or spirituality.

Jared Bark (born in 1944 in Appleton, USA) splits his time between New York City and his farm in Warwick, NY, where he has lived with his wife, painter Lois Lane, since 1981. Jared Bark is an artist known for his diverse range of activities and media. Performance, body art, chance procedures, and minimalist abstraction all appeared and often merged within his works. He is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York).

Shun Kadohashi (born in 1985) is a ceramic artist and painter living in Chiba, Japan. He undertook an apprenticeship with the British artist Sandy Brown before returning to Japan and developing his own practice.

Massao Mascaro (born in 1990 in Lille) lives in Brussels. He graduated with a Master in Photography at BlankPaper Escuela in Madrid. Since 2019, Massao is teaching photography in Brussels Fine Arts Academy.
Massao’s work is a delicate balance between autobiography, topography and politics. His intimate point of view, his use of a soft focus, a tight cropping and a narrow depth of field evoke touch. The scope of his work is profoundly political, as it is rooted in the need to explore how humans relate to the spaces (both cultural and geographical) they inhabit. He is represented by Galerie C (Neuchâtel).

Constance Guisset (born in 1976 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a designer, interior architect and scenographer, as well as an illustrator. After studying at ESSEC and Sciences Po, followed by a year at the Tokyo Parliament, Constance Guisset entered ENSCI - Les Ateliers, from which she graduated in 2007. Her work is marked by a search for balance between ergonomics, delicacy and imagination. Her objects are all attempts to explore the embodiment of movement through lightness or surprise, while at the same time defending a demand for comfort and welcoming of bodies and their gestures.

Deanna Dikeman (born in 1954 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA) currently resides in Kansas City. She has photographed her midwestern family and surroundings since 1985, when she left a corporate job to try a photography class. She has M.S. and B.S. degrees from Purdue University. She received an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship in 1996, and the United States Artists Booth Fellowship in 2008. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow.

Seiichi Furuya (born 1950 in Izu, Japan) left the port of Yokohama in 1973 to travel to Europe on the Trans-Siberian Railway, after graduating from Tokyo Polytechnic University in 1972. He moved to Graz in 1975, where he met Christine Gössler in February 1978, and the couple married in May of the same year. In 1982, they moved to Vienna so that Christine could study drama, and then to Berlin in 1985. Seiichi Furuya is one of the founders of the photography magazine Camera Austria and has published around twenty books of photographs featuring Christine, himself and their life together.

Coco Capitán (born in 1992 in Seville) moved to London at the age of 17, where she studied Photography at the University of Arts of London and majored as MA Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art.
She is known for her artistic and design work across different paths, practices and media. She likes making things, painting, thinking, writing, photography, listening to others, finding solutions to problems, making books, arranging spaces, mixing music, designing and exhibitions, among other things.

Rinko Kawauchi (Born in 1972 Shiga) lives in Chiba, Japan. She became interested in photography while studying at Seian College of Art and Design. Rinko Kawauchi's work is characterised by a serene, poetic style, illustrating the ordinary moments in life. She photographs mainly using a 6×6 format. She is represented by Galerie Priska Pasquer in Germany, Meessen De Clercq in Belgium, Rose Gallery in the USA and Christophe Guye Galerie in Switzerland.

Vasantha Yogananthan (born in 1985 in Grenoble) lives and works in Marseille.
He is a self-taught photographer who is deeply attached to silver photography. The book is a central object in his practice, which led him to co-found the publishing house Chose Commune. He has carried out his projects over a long period of time, first in France on the beach at Piémanson (2009-2013), then in India and Sri Lanka Sri-Lanka around the myth of the Rāmāyana (2013-2021). In 2022, he carries out a new project in New Orleans, USA, as part of the Immersion program of the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, of which it is a winner. He is represented by Jhavery contemporary (Mumbay) and The Photographers’ Gallery Print Sales (London).

Shoji Ueda (born 1913 in Sakaiminato in Japan and died 2000) is one of the great figures in the history of Japanese photography. At the age of 15, his father bought him his first camera, and in 1932 he graduated from the Tokyo Oriental Photography School. Until his death in 2000, he devoted his life to photography in his native region, far from the profusion of Tokyo, claiming to be an amateur. Known for his distinctive ‘Ueda cho’ style, he is best known for his famous series of photographs taken in the surreal setting of the sand dunes of his native Tottori prefecture.

Geraldo de Barros (born in 1923 in Chavantes, São Paulo, and passed away in 1998) was initially trained in economics before beginning his study of art in the mid-1940s.
He was one of the leading figures of the Brazilian avant-garde and is now recognized as a key figure in the Brazilian art scene of the second half of the 20th century. A curious artist with a passion for experimentation, his work was highly diverse. As both a painter, photographer, and designer, he was also one of the founding members of concrete art in São Paulo.

Issei Suda (born in Tokyo in 1940 and died in 2019) graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography. He initially worked as a photographer for the Tenjo Sajiki theater company, before becoming an independent photographer.
A photographer of everyday life, the instantaneous, the furtive and the snapshot, he teaches at Tokyo College of Photography and Zokei University in Tokyo, as well as at the Photography Department of Osaka University of the Arts. He has held over 190 solo exhibitions in his lifetime.

Masako Tomiya (born in 1981 in Japan) began photography during her high school years, and then studied in Osaka and Tokyo in the 2000s. From that time on, she began taking photographs of the Tsugaru region, where she was born.

Nathalie Du Pasquier (born in 1957 in Bordeaux, France) is a designer and artist known for her work as a founding member of the Memphis Group in the 1980s. Initially focused on textiles, furniture, and patterns, she later shifted her focus to painting. Her work is characterized by bold colors, geometric shapes, and a playful approach to composition. She continues to explore the relationship between objects, space, and form in her art.

Alexandra Catière (born in Minsk, Belarus) lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the International Center of Photography (New York, USA) and was an assistant to Irving Penn. Winner of the Festival de la Photographie d'Hyères in 2007, then of the first edition of the BMW Residency at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce with an exhibition at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2012, she regularly collaborates with the press. Alexandra Catiere is the author of four photographic books. Her borderless career bears witness to her desire to reach out to the universal. From the former Soviet Union to France and the United States, she has made timelessness one of the major aspects of her work. She is represented by the In Camera Gallery (Paris).

Iris de Moüy (born in 1975 in Paris) lives and works in Paris. She draws, paints, and writes. Working primarily on paper, her open and spontaneous style expresses a range of emotions using ink, gouache, and oil paint. She sometimes tells stories through short animated films, bringing her whimsical drawings to life. Throughout her work, she creates a unique universe, inspired by both everyday life and a sense of magic. She creates children's books and artist books and was an artist-in-residence at Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto, Japan) in 2015.

Clémentine Schneidermann (born in 1991) is a French photographer living and working between Paris and South Wales. She works on long-term projects and commissions and is interested in new creative practices in social documentary photography. Her approach is collaborative and playful, with an interest in communities, childhood as well as our relationship to identity and culture. She is a co-founder of Ffasiwn Stiwdio, a photography-based creative studio that creates workshops, publications, films, and exhibitions with youth groups.

Sarker Protick (born in 1986 in Dhaka, Bangladesh) studied at the South Asian Media Institute – Pathshala in Dhaka, where he is also teaching for the last ten years.
Sarker Protick’s work frequently build the narrative around the trope of change; momentary stillness, fleeting light, elemental origins of a place. To make the decaying memory tangible, to define disappearing history of a place without confining it, Protick’s often minimal, suspended and atmospheric visuals are coherently open with vast and solemn distance.

Katrin Koenning (born in 1978 in Dortmund, Germany) lives and works in Naarm, Australia.
She studied documentary photography at the Queensland College of Art, at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia). Pursuing intimacy and interconnection, Katrin Koenning's work centres around practice as relational encounter. In her extended image-dialogues, Katrin uses fragments and slippages to suggest narrative spaces and communities that are fluid and multiplicit

Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck (born in 1990 in Strasbourg, France) is a painter and interdisciplinary artist working across rural Oxfordshire (UK) and rural Alsace (France).
Her practice composed of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, film, photography and writing often conceals ecological messages, rendered in soft and delicate methods. In several of the artist’s projects interaction with the environment and others plays a central role. In 2014, Johanna founded the positive and collaborative cultural project Poetic Pastel. In 2018, the artist cofounded the publication series Journal du Thé – Contemporary Tea Culture.

Julie Cockburn (born in 1966 in London) lives and works in Suffolk (UK). She at Central St Martins School of Art and Design and Chelsea School of Art, London. Julie Cockburn's work is best defined by its delicate craftsmanship and by the transformation of everyday and found objects into works of art. Through the manipulation of found items and images - such as ceramic sculptures, paintings, photographs, printed paper and books, she evokes a sense of both the new and the spontaneous. She is represented by The Photographers’ Gallery (London), Flowers Gallery (London) and Hopstreet Gallery (Brussels).

Raymond Meeks (borni in 1963 in Ohio) lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York. His pictures have been exhibited at galleries including Fotomuseum Den Haag (Holland), Candace Dwan in New York and Camera Obscura in Paris. His work is housed in public and private collections including the Bibliothèque Nationale (France), The National Gallery of Art, George Eastman House and the Museum of Modern Art Library. He is the co-founder of Orchard Journal and Dumbsaint and the author of over twenty-four commercially and self-published books. His most recent collaborative journal, Township, (along with Tim Carpenter, Adrianna Ault and Brad Zellar) was nominated for the 2018 International Photobook Award at Kassel. Meeks is represented by Wouter van Leeuwen in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Claudine Doury (born in 1959 in Blois) lives and works mainly in Paris. After studying journalism, she first worked for agencies before becoming a photographer in 1989. At the intersection of reality and fiction, her work deals with notions of memory and transition, particularly around adolescence and travel, which are central themes in her work. She is represented by Galerie in Camera and the Vu agency, both in Paris.

Published by Mousse Publishing
408 pages
24 × 16 cm
Softcover
French / English
2020
ISBN 9788867494491