Saraï Delfendahl

Saraï Delfendahl lives and works in Paris. Her glazed earthenware wall sculptures form processions of baroque and benevolent creatures, where fantasy meets the sacred.

A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI) and daughter of the Australian ethnologist Bernard Delfendahl, she grew up surrounded by the showcases of the Musée de l’Homme and the Musée du Quai Branly, fascinated by the symbolism of objects and the stories they carry. From this wonder-filled childhood was born a body of work that is at once intuitive, anthropological, and deeply poetic.

Her series, most notably Models, compose an intimate mythology inspired by the Kachina dolls once collected by André Breton. Each hand-shaped figure becomes the reflection of a spirit or guardian, and together they evoke a primordial humanity, reconciled with nature and its forces.

Exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, as well as in Brussels, London, Milan, Tokyo, and Basel, Saraï Delfendahl transforms ceramics into an art of the living, a space where wonder and instinct regain their rightful place at the heart of the world.