Région Sud Design Prize : Andrea Moreno

Born in Caracas, Andrea Moreno grew up observing the city from traffic jams. This Venezuelan childhood and the experience of migration continue to shape the way she looks at the world and makes objects.

 

Trained in Dieulefit in 2022, her approach to design flows directly from her sculptural practice: a work of assembly, balance, and experimentation in which the object becomes an extension of sculpture in an everyday context. She draws inspiration from Venezuelan ingenuity — the capacity to repair and build with whatever is at hand, which she calls a “resourceful glamour” — translated in her objects into improvised constructions of fragile, almost miraculous equilibrium.

 

Her process follows a near-zero-waste logic. In ceramics, she treats workshop leftovers — clay scraps, glaze residues, broken pieces — as raw material to be crushed, remelted, and incorporated into new forms. Fragments of past objects thus become the structure of new ones: candleholders, vases, tables, functional volumes, and experimental pieces. Each object bears the traces of these layers, like a material archive of the studio.

 

Winner of the Silver Prize at the Young European Ceramicist award (Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, 2023), she has exhibited notably at Nendo Galerie in Marseille, Volume Céramique in Paris, as well as at Art-o-rama, the Salon Céramique 14 in Paris, and the Galerie du 19M in Marseille and Dakar.

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