“What interests me is drawing that comes to life”

Juliette Teste lives and works in Paris. Trained at École Duperré and Institut Français de la Mode, she first worked in image-making within the houses of Yves Saint Laurent and Dior Homme, before co-founding the ARC studio in Pré-Saint-Gervais and developing an artistic practice centred on drawing, ceramics, and processes of assemblage.

Her vase/drawings emerge through a process of collage and stratification where iconographic repertoires, visual memories, and spontaneous gestures intersect. Forms inherited from Antiquity, decorative arts history, and popular culture become the support for free pictorial interventions, animated by a palette of glazes that shift between muted and powdery tones.

Colour occupies a central place in her practice. Informed by her former experience, it is conceived through a logic close to that of textile, where tension, layering, and harmony contribute as much to the construction of form as to its perception. The glazes thus become sensitive surfaces, carrying both pictorial and material memory.

These unique pieces build a visual vocabulary in which different temporalities are layered. Ancient frescoes, ornamental motifs, digital imagery, and memories of video games coexist within a shared field of projection. The vase appears less as a functional object than as a surface for thought—a site of inscription where drawing moves beyond the page into volume. In her unique pieces, . The vase becomes a surface for thought, where drawing unfolds into volume while remaining in a state of constant transformation.

Between sketch and sculpture, each piece reflects an attention to movement, accident, and the circulation of forms. The result is a body of work traversed by open narratives, where classical references and personal imaginaries meet in a free and sensitive reading of art history.