Prune Nourry, Nicola Delon & Ramy Fischler

Biosourced materials, creating differently

In the light of current times, the Foundation is broadening its field of exploration to include ecological issues through a series of online and live conversations “Creators facing the climate emergency”. Artists, scientists and searchers are invited to question today’s world and create new narratives to draw more desirable futures:

Which commitment and responsibility do the artist and the philosopher have regarding this crisis?
How are artistic and writing practices impacted? Which behaviour should individually and collectively be implemented?
What new way to produce and display art while public engagement becomes increasingly immaterial?
Which vision and creativeness to be impulsed for reinventing tomorrow’s world?

Themes: Generating new narratives towards desirable imaginaries / Upcycling - reuse of materials, in the fields of visual arts, design and architecture to face the depletion of resources / Bio-sourced materials (raw earth) / The notion of risk / Temporary occupation project / How do these crises allow for the creation of new opportunities in creation / Building a collective intelligence in the service of sustainable innovation / Calling on young generations to stimulate their curiosity about the world

Cited references

Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens : Une brève histoire de l’humanité (Albin Michel, 2015)
Philippe Descola
Baptiste Morizot, Manières d’être vivants (Actes Sud, 2020)
Cyril Dion, Animal (sortie septembre 2021)
Bruno Latour, Où suis-je ? Leçons du confinement à l'usage des terrestres (Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 2021)
Hubert Reeves
Jean-Claude Carrière

Prune Nourry, Nicola Delon and Ramy Fischler has been collaborating for several years around the exploration and use of "clean" and innovative materials to produce art, in particular clay and recycled concrete. Invited during this conversation, they will share the fruits of their research, which contribute to redefining the status of the artwork and its integration within the environment which it is a part of.

Speakers

Prune Nourry lives and works in New York. She is interested in the fields of science and anthropology, particularly bioethical questions relating to gender selection and the artificial evolution of humankind. She explores these issues with an artistic approach that combines sculpture, installations, performances and video. Over the last few years, the artist has gained recognition for her long-term projects, such as the Terracotta Daughters army, inspired by the Xi’an terracotta warriors. The piece travelled the world between 2013 and 2015, from Paris to China and taking in Zurich, New York and Mexico City. Prune Nourry is represented by Galerie Templon in Paris and Brussels.

Practical information

Guests: Prune Nourry, artist, Nicola Delon, architect and co-founder of Encore Heureux agency and Ramy Fischler, designer and founder of RF Studio.