Kairos Price (75.000 euros) the European Cultural Award by the A.Toepfer foundation in Germany to honor Katell Gelebart “as a creative visionary revisiting what’s already there.” Katell Gélébart, born in Brittany in 1972, grew up in a creative family and discovered the world of design as a child: she made clothes for the teddy […]
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2023. Revamping Anima Casa Rural , Guadalajara / MEXICO
I have been invited to revamp a rural home in the vicinity of Guadalajara, in the middle of a permaculture garden to turn it into an artist residency. https://animacasarural.com Benefit for Anima Casa Rural ? . I have re used everything at my disposal on the property. . it was nearly a zero-budget project . I […]
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2023. Artist in Residence in Oaxaca City /MEXICO
BUILDING with CARRIZO Dried reed stems have been used for millennia as thatching and construction material, in basketry, for arrows and pens, and in musical instruments . It is similar to bamboo. Historically, Mexican indigenous used common reed as a building material to construct a variety of items, including arrow shafts, musical instruments, mats and […]
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2023. Artist in Residence at Green Leaf Bistro, Corozal/ BELIZE
During 3 weeks, invited to create with ‘whatever is there’ for the Vegan Green Leaf Bistro in Corozal. I created some lampshades with dried tree branches , using as bases : bicycle wheels or other used fan structures.. Plant hangers too are made of used metallic structures. The branches are assembled by the ancestral technic […]
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2022 Workshop at FH Joanneum /Graz/ AUSTRIA
Invited to run a two-days-workshop at FH Joanneum, University of Applied Sciences , Graz, Austria. Guiding the class of Master in graphics into low tech’ realisation of a catalogue printed exclusively on re used matter with artisanal technics. This event followed the online lecture in 2021 .
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