Cocon 2

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Working on clay with her own hands, Val felt a revelation, a kind of “love at first sight” for this activity which she perceived as an extension of her inner world. “It was like a revelation, a sort of resurgence of a long-buried memory. My love for sculpture, the material and the volume was born in a completely immediate fashion”, she said during an interview in 2014. During two years, Val took art lessons in Paris and then, in August 2004, went to settle in Thailand, where she began working with bronze. Working with this material, Goutard, who took the artist’s name of VAL, and emphasized her self-learning. Her relative lack of culture in visual arts brought her, she said, “a freedom vis-à-vis the masters”.