Frederick Hornof

Frederick Hornof is a multimedia artist of German and Czech origin, based in Paris. His singular hybrid practice explores the encounter between matter and movement, weaving an unprecedented dialogue between ceramics and video — two radically different languages that his work brings together in a deeply coherent creative tension.

Trained in the fine arts, he has developed an artistic inquiry centred on the materiality of time: clay, frozen in its petrified forms, enters into resonance with moving video projections to generate immersive spaces in which the viewer is invited to perceive the strata of reality and its representation. These formal encounters — between the tactile and the ephemeral, between craft and technology — become meditations on memory, transformation, and the porous boundaries that separate disciplines and materials.

Active in Parisian galleries and contemporary art spaces, Frederick Hornof pursues a practice that reactivates ceramics as a living medium, interrogated and energised by the digital flow of video. His work poses a fundamental and resolutely contemporary question: what does it mean to touch, shape, and preserve matter in the age of the virtual?

As part of the Les Gardiennes de la Mer artistic residency at Résidences Rocabella, Frederick Hornof finds himself before a subject that seems almost tailored for his practice: the sea — a material in perpetual motion, simultaneously tangible and elusive, resisting all fixation and stable representation. For an artist who works precisely at the border between the frozen form of clay and the continuous flow of video, the Mediterranean offers extraordinarily rich territory.

This residency provides him with a space for unprecedented experimentation: observing how light, the movement of waves, and the textures of the shoreline constantly transform what might appear fixed — rock, sand, sediment. These continuous metamorphoses of the coastal real feed directly into his research on memory, transformation, and the materiality of time, opening new directions for his immersive installations in which ceramics and video enter into dialogue. Facing the sea, the boundaries between the tactile and the ephemeral, between craft and technology, have never felt more porous.