Cross-residency La Petite Escalère (Landes) and Domaine viticole de Suriane & Voyons voir (Bouches-du-Rhône).
The discovery of large clematis vines in the Petite Escalère garden, followed by vine stocks in the winery - the vine stock is a creeper - gave rise to a body of work based on dance and writing. I explored the sensory possibilities of the two lands - reduced to a common space of knots, autonomous fragments and intuitive writing. Then I tamed the elements, materials and textures collected on the sites (vine fragments, soaps, wax, rainwater, etc.), playing on the complicity of the landscape to bring words to life. As if examining territories from the inside, to be lived and experienced, I delivered, with the accomplices I met along the way, my intimacy with water, earth and the stars. Water became the matrix of existential experience and symbolic writing.
The body of work :
. Dissoudre le paysage (installation)
Vine stock, wire, metal dimension 11 m x 0.40 m
Eighteen vine-like letters - the vine is a creeper thwarted by the hand of man - form the words ' Dissolve the landscape ' . They disappear and reappear in the water, like a subliminal message written in arabesque embroidery.
. Archaeology of knots and folds
selected knots from vine stocks are molded in plaster. Isolated in fragments and multiplied, the fragile, reborn materiality of plaster shifts representations towards an archaeological imaginary (animal figures, bones).
. Tokonoma (installation)
echoing the motif of the black square drawn in slate on the vats of the Suriane estate, a large black square imposes itself through its materiality and scale. Two vines suggest a waterfall motif as found in the tokonomas (alcoves) of Japanese homes, where decorative elements chosen according to the seasons - ceramics, cut flowers, incense, mountains, waterfalls - interact and release a vital energy. The elements extrapolate a dialogue between two territories: affinities with water, earth and sky, in the shared space of the tokonoma.
. Zostera (ceramics)
among the items hanging on the Tokonoma wall is the " zostera " ceramic, whose shape is inspired by the eponymous plants that symbolize purity and fecundity. Zostera (from the Greek for " belt " ) are aquatic plants whose ribbons can grow up to 120 cm long, contributing to the ecological balance of the Etang de Berre lagoon. They encourage the reproduction of fish and crustaceans.
. Family portrait
elements of beeswax, soap and clay collected on site are arranged on a black-painted square (tokonoma scale 45 x 45 cm). The whole looks like a family portrait whose memories fade with the sun's rays and the rain.