Residence along the water: Mondes Nouveaux

Mondes Nouveaux 2022

8 days rich in exchanges and creativity around the black poplar, on the banks of the Loire, a project brilliantly carried out over several years by the artist Louis Guillaume...inspired each of the participants: Anatole Pinel - Celia Calvez - Agnès Schermann - Gwennina Moigne - Zoé Guinut - Daniel Bourgeais - Pierre Ardouin - Olivier Dohin on Fabien Rollet's cabin toue.

Residence over the water.

A week rich in exchanges and creativity around the “Mondes Nouveaux” (New Worlds) project.

The outbreak was 2 weeks earlier than last year. Ideal for me. I experiment with the possibilities of this cotton, this black poplar fiber for textiles. Long time ago it seems that a fabric has been made. The atmosphere inspires each of the residents. Collective and personal works begin to emerge.

ART & CRAFT / CARVING, WEAVING

Sculpture and weaving.

How volume sculpture inspires my weavings.

Weaving approached as a new material to explore.

Weaving makes it possible to understand the color, the interrelation between medium and process at the origin of the form.

September 12

Narrative writing, playing with colors. Experiments. The preliminary works are similar to extended meditation. Weaving has a strong and enveloping presence, against my work with porcelain, hard an white

July 27

How does this instrument end up here?

In parallel, I read Daniel Mendelsohn's Les Disparus. The author ties up loose ends, goes, 60 years later, in search of pieces of it, gathers them together, untangles them, ties them up again, tries to fill in the holes, organize the fragments. That's it. A story that unfolds, that is written in time.

First of all, make a place for it. There it is in its place. As one can say that I am in my place at Chassy, what may be surpriseing. The instrument was reassembled, I cleaned it, I put away the bobbins, the spindles, the shuttles, I learned unknown words, I got used to its presence, I met Patrick Guerrier.

First step: adjust it, tune it. Organize this tangle of strings, knotted, broken, knotted aggain over the years; do not get tangled up !