Description
After her first residency at Lycée Condé, artist Rosalie Piras headed to MFR La Roche du Trésor in Orchamps-Vennes for her second residency. For several weeks, students enrolled in the BPJEPS and CPJEPS programmes worked with Rosalie on designing wooden furniture.
Three islands have been installed outside the MFR, inviting different uses of the space: contemplation, eating, and resting. The project here is to question the relationships we have with public spaces, which are often places of passage, and to learn to reclaim them by (re)imagining them.
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
Juste Ici et Rosalie Piras