Earth, ceramics
After training in graphic design and edition at the Olivier de Serres school in Paris, Emmanuelle founded in 2007 her creation studio and produced several graphic orders. She simultaneously joins a collective of plastic artists with whom she will initiate and develop for more than 10 years an artistic project linked to environmental issues, the Bank of Honey. Around installations built and installed on the sidewalks of cities, this device put humans and bees in contact and met a number of questions and expertise.
At the same time, since 2013 she has developed with Earth material, an approach of experiments and research on form and building.
In 2017, she co-founded with 3 other ceramists also self-taught, workshop and collective gangster in the Bastille district of Paris. “Creating, developing our space and having our oven completely changed our practice. Each of us developed personal work, to which was added a 5th entity, that of the collective with parts thought and produced with 8 hands ”.
Since 2019, it has been developing Living heritage An applied research project focused on earth material and its possibilities; Questioning our methods of production and construction of spaces, furniture and objects in an economic, ecological upset and changing context. In particular by developing the clay / biopolymers association such as the natural bee wax.
Marseille
Emmanuelle has a “longtime attachment” to the city of Marseille. She appreciates her raw and powerful character, the diversity that characterizes her and the landscapes of the creeks that surround her, made up largely of clay limestone.
His research project, living heritage, developing in connection with the shores of the Mediterranean and Morocco, Emmanuelle does not see herself leading him elsewhere than in Marseille.
His interest in the Marseille city also focuses on the desire to put in the heart of the cities, the question of art professions, crafts and contemporary creation and to reconnect with the history of Marseille, often overlooked, like a of the first cities of earthenware in France from the 17th century.
Creation of space earth In the center of Marseille
Emmanuelle has set up her new workshop close to the Old Port of Marseille. This space fits into a more substantial place that it co-founded and opened in June 2021 with Stéphanie Pigaglio, initiator of the Clay workshops in Paris.
Their common intention was to create a 200m2 place dedicated to clay and its uses, a multiple, protean space and open to all.
Materials, resources, know-how
She also wishes via the project Living heritage Propose a contemporary reading of the Earth material sector. In particular, the question of enameling arises, the composition of which brings together naturally toxic materials and rare earths whose extraction techniques can ask questions. At the time of the appearance of terracotta 10,000 years ago in the Neolithic, beeswax was used as the main material to ensure the waterproofing of the parts. Emmanuelle is working to reinitize and via Viabilk the use of beeswax to respond to impermeability issues, in order to offer a more lasting alternative to classic enameling.
Regarding color, she works to weigh the pigments “the most natural and the most local possible”, or with naturally colorful land. "It is a long process but to initiate and it is an approach in which I find myself".
“It is essential and urgent to use products healthier for oneself and for the planet, to know the characteristics and the provenance. We cannot decorate our practices, our actions of the very question of global warming and its dramatic acceleration. We tirelessly scored the branch on which we are seated. ”
News
Next September, Emmanuelle will exhibit her work during Paris Design Week, at the Amélie Maison d'Art gallery and the Thalie Foundation in Brussels. The inauguration of the space earth will take place in Marseille in mid-September and she will participate in the Nuit Blanche in Mayenne, responding to the invitation of the Art Center booth.
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