Bénédicte Vallet/KaOlien graduated from the Beaux-arts de Nantes in 1995 with a degree in Environmental Design, and began training in throwing and high-temperature enamels at the Centre International de Formation à la Céramique in 2005. 

Now based in Brittany, she has become a ceramic weaver, working with porcelain and textiles (hemp and linen). 

On one side, linen, a supple, malleable plant, on the other, porcelain, a solid but fragile mineral. These two opposing materials attract and bind, as do the colors used: the plant brown recalls the dust of the earth and the mineral white evokes the milky skeleton.

The result is a removable, articulated woven ceramic.

“Once the ceramics have been made, I assemble them with hemp and linen fibers. I bind, untie, wind and unroll this rigid material, revealing its unsuspected power of suppleness, through a primary mesh and ritual gestures.” Bénédicte Vallet, Interview by Virginie Chuimer-Layen - Ateliers d'Art, November December 2016