Born in 1938 in northern France, Anne Barres continues to live and work in a small village outside of Paris. Through her work, she explores the different aesthitic and tactile qualities in the use of materials: clay, sandstone, and porcelain. Her art relies on the antagonism between hard and soft, fired and raw, the yin and yang of the elements and the organic nature the materials provoke. Best exemplified in her 1980s work: "Arrachements" (wrenching), some of her works seem to capture and magnify a moment of her artistic process. From 1986 to 1998, Anne Barres used the industrial, rectangular brick as a base module for her sculptures. She's worked in brickyards deforming, dismantling, inflating, and flattening the brick while it is still soft, in order to create an elastic look or give the material 'movement'. Anne Barres's creations also evoke the practice and art of sewing, she includes in her craft. By weaving nylon stitches into porcelain and sandstone, she continues to explore this feminine tradition while transforming the static, heavy-handed materials into an organic, fluid, process.