Description
Rosalie Piras completed her first residency as a visual artist at the Lycée Condé de Battant, working with students in their final year of CAP Crémier Fromager and Hôtel, Café, Restaurant. Over several weeks, the students worked with Rosalie to create an island, using ‘sofa sections’ that change the way a common space is used. Always available to the students, these pieces of furniture allow them to reclaim the space and see their school in a new light.
These sofa sections were sewn and screen-printed by all the students with Rosalie Piras.
Action
These workshops were conducted as part of the Visual Artists in High Schools programme offered by the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region. Through this programme – and in partnership with the DRAC and DRAAF – the Franche-Comté Regional Council aims to stimulate curiosity and encourage initiative among high school students by bringing them into contact with artists and introducing them to places of artistic creation and dissemination.
Three approaches are explored during the residency: encountering a work of art through the discovery of a creative process, artistic and cultural practice, and the development of aesthetic judgement. Beginning with a visit to Bien Urbain, the aim is to introduce students to the field of urban arts, both through sensitivity and practice.
Biographie
As a spatial designer and visual artist, her work revolves around the concepts of social design, particularly in public spaces. How can we give people the opportunity to meet and share collective experiences? It is from this question that Rosalie Piras creates communal spaces and temporary modules that encourage encounters and social interactions linked to territories and their inhabitants.
Using unifying elements such as food and music, she imagines frugal interventions, pretexts for hospitality and gathering, inviting new rituals while showing users the possibility of appropriating their environments.
Crédits
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