Apoticari x Love-Love, Ceramic Cairns, Resonating Gestures

In the window of Apoticari, in the heart of Le Puy-en-Velay, a discreet work catches the eye and invites silence. A composition of stacked steles, modeled in raw ceramic, glazed in white and ash. An installation by Julie Perrot, artist and founder of the Amour Amour studio, which draws on primitive forms and repetitive gestures, a language deeply rooted in the Auvergne soil.

Between cairns and cosmetics

Inspired by cairns—the mounds of stones left by walkers to mark their paths—the artist transposes their uncertain balance into a motionless yet vibrant installation. Each element is turned by hand, then stacked according to instinctive logic, without sketches or plans. Like care applied as needed, each form responds to the one before it. “It’s a work of dialogue, a back-and-forth between the body, the earth, and the void,” explains Julie. Here, instinct guides the form, the enamel highlights the material, and the void gives meaning.

Portrait of a Free Ceramist

Julie Perrot lives and works in Auvergne, in a remote hamlet in the Allier Valley. It's there, in her studio, converted from a former barn, that she crafts everyday objects into meditative works. Trained in textile design and with a background in photography, she founded the Amour Amour studio with the desire to blend utility and emotion. Her pieces, recognizable by their clean lines and mineral hues, are fragments of landscapes frozen in the earth.

In her work, ceramics are neither decorative nor precious. They are lived in, placed, and used. A plate becomes a base for a soap. A bowl holds an oil or floral water. Each object bears the mark of the gesture and the fire. An assumed roughness, an imperfect shine, a tangible emotion.

When objects speak the same language

At Apoticari, Julie's world resonates naturally. The same attention to detail. The same grounding in the land. The same desire to restore meaning to the simplest rituals. The installation designed for the Puy-en-Velay window doesn't seek to illustrate the products—it extends them. Like a mineral echo of medicinal plants, a silent dialogue between care and matter.

The steles, placed there like fragile beacons, also tell of a way of inhabiting the world: in balance, in attention, in slowness. A shared philosophy.