The Green Vessel (Part 1)
Conceived originally for the lake surrounding the International Center of Art and Landscape at Vassivière Island (France), The Green Vessel is a project for a site-specific sculpture, a floating and mobile ensemble that is able to stop at various locations of a water area, wetland or delta.
Composed of an architectural structure, floating fields and edible wild plants, this ensemble can purify water and produce food. The modularity of its design allow this sculpture to become a blueprint that can be modified and multiplied.
Experimenting with self-sufficient forms of transport, housing and food production, this project mix vegetal species and sculptural structures in order to allow the growing and the development of a coevolutionary work.
Developed through a transdisciplinary research with architects, botanists, engineers and local communities, this project is extended by a series of drawings, texts and sculptures, which explore the relationships between forms, modularity, movement through landscape and narration. This series of works elaborate the presence of a community living in floating architectures and constitute the starting point of a script and film, that were developed between 2015 and 2019.
Site specific sculpture project:
Installation series:
Drawings, modularity studies and sculpture The Green Vessel.
The sculpture can be arranged and placed in multiple and personalized ways. Evocating a metamorphic and opened architecture, composed of more or less transparent panels that can move on rails, as well as detachable parts, the sculpture can be modulated and modified by the public. Anyone can, in a chosen exhibition space, appropriates her/himself the work, modify in infinite ways the appearance, the colours and the composition of this sculpture.
Drawings “The Green Vessel”. A series between drawing, story-board and poetry. Describing past and future events, territories and locations, these works evoke narratives, which will expand later into the story-telling elements of the film “The Green Vessel”.
The Green Vessel, lightbox and installation.