"Julie Hrnčířová conducted a three-week artistic residency with three classes at the Lycée des métiers du bois et de l’éco-construction d’Envermeu.
In this project, the artist develops a body of work attentive to the happy accidents of everyday life and other anonymous sculptures dotting urban environments, encouraged the students to create a multitude of scumptures. Assembled from scraps of wood recovered from the workshops and the sawmill, these sculptures were then staged and photographed in the nearby forest.
During the first week, the artist and the students collected offcuts from the workshops and the sawmill in order to create wooden volumes (carved, cut, assembled). They then staged and photographed them in the neighbouring forest, digital and film cameras in hand and hiking boots on their feet.
The second week took place in the residency space of the Centre photographique in Rouen and was devoted to the development, processing and printing of the photographs taken during the first week of workshops.
For the final week of residency, Julie Hrnčířová returned to the school, large prints under her arm, to lead workshops on the creation of frames and pedestals – again made from scrap wood.
The final results were an exhibition at the school and a printed leporello-zine "
*Created by the Centre Photographique Rouen, funded by:‘Jumelages-résidences d’artistes’ of the Regional Department of Cultural Affairs of Normandy , with the participation of the Regional Department of Food, Agriculture and Forestry and the Vocational School of Wood and Eco-Construction of Envermeu.
more info & video here
"Julie Hrnčířová conducted a three-week artistic residency with three classes at the Lycée des métiers du bois et de l’éco-construction d’Envermeu.
In this project, the artist develops a body of work attentive to the happy accidents of everyday life and other anonymous sculptures dotting urban environments, encouraged the students to create a multitude of scumptures. Assembled from scraps of wood recovered from the workshops and the sawmill, these sculptures were then staged and photographed in the nearby forest.
During the first week, the artist and the students collected offcuts from the workshops and the sawmill in order to create wooden volumes (carved, cut, assembled). They then staged and photographed them in the neighbouring forest, digital and film cameras in hand and hiking boots on their feet.
The second week took place in the residency space of the Centre photographique in Rouen and was devoted to the development, processing and printing of the photographs taken during the first week of workshops.
For the final week of residency, Julie Hrnčířová returned to the school, large prints under her arm, to lead workshops on the creation of frames and pedestals – again made from scrap wood.
The final results were an exhibition at the school and a printed leporello-zine "
*Created by the Centre Photographique Rouen, funded by:‘Jumelages-résidences d’artistes’ of the Regional Department of Cultural Affairs of Normandy , with the participation of the Regional Department of Food, Agriculture and Forestry and the Vocational School of Wood and Eco-Construction of Envermeu.
more info & video here