Pays'Âges
Detailed Description
Through this collective, local and itinerant project, Dorian Étienne works with local residents to create 3D large-scale testimonial tapestries. It presents the singularities of the region studied, its topography and biodiversity. It is made on site with 100% local and natural materials. These monumental artworks testify to a “state of place” at this crucial moment of ecological disruption.
Project Details
- In your project's current stage of development, how does it align with the OPENNESS value of the Distributed Design Platform?
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Pays’Âges is above all a participatory project: the inhabitants are invited to learn alongside the designer the techniques of plant dyeing and tufting, then to participate daily in the highlighting of their territory by the realization of the collective artwork.
- In your project's current stage of development, how does it align with the COLLABORATIVE value of the Distributed Design Platform?
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This project takes up a major social issue by weaving links between residents of the same locality over a three-month residency on site, while enabling them to understand the place they live in a different way. It also offers a space for creation, sharing and collective transmission, where each stage is carried out jointly. As part of local intergenerational teams, it uses art, design and craft to initiate reflection on the future of the region, by forging an intimate relationship with the life and the land.
- In your project's current stage of development, how does it align with the REGENERATIVE value of the Distributed Design Platform?
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Pays'Âges reveals the identity of endangered territories (rising waters, human footprint, disappearance of biodiversity, ...) from an unusual artistic angle : from the sky.
These creations will be reproduced a few decades later. Exhibited alongside the first ones, the diptychs will artistically testify to the evolution of the region as well as to the ecological and societal issues at stake.
Before that, each tapestry-testimony is accompanied by a large-format print of the territory, projected in 50 years. This scenario is realized through the analysis of local evolution data, with the support of researchers and specialized organizations.
The Pays'Âges collection, growing year after year, will support the work of local structures in their mission of protection and enhancement of the environment, biodiversity and landscapes.
- In your project's current stage of development, how does it align with the ECOSYSTEMIC value of the Distributed Design Platform?
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The tapestries bear witness to the area and its issues in a number of ways: the time-stamped view of the sky represented before the creation of a second one a few decades later, the materials used 100% local and natural, the creation of the artwork together with local residents, the permanent display of the works in their place of representation to raise awareness and offer an artistic tool to local protection organisations, ...
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