Léontine Furcy is a self-taught French sculptor whose practice emerged from a desire to liberate sensitivity through making. After studying law and communication, she initially worked in styling, set design, and scenography for film and audiovisual productions. This first engagement with space, gesture, and atmosphere gradually led her toward clay, a decisive encounter that allowed her to translate emotion into form. Influenced early on by her mother, a graphic designer who worked entirely by hand, Furcy developed an intimate relationship with manual processes and material expression.
Her creative process begins with emancipatory gestures sketched daily in notebooks, drawings that search for forms arising from deep, often pre-verbal sensibility. These gestures are then carefully assembled using chamotte clay slabs, preserving lightness, movement, and fragility. Clay becomes both medium and language: soft, accessible, and endlessly expressive. Through it, Furcy explores her inner landscape, shaping sculptures that feel instinctive, necessary, and profoundly alive.
