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The Space Between poster
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Torrential by m i n u i t
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Torrential by m i n u i t
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Weaved by Nina Fradet
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Weaved by Nina Fradet
Exhibition
The Space Between | Design March 2019
28 Mar 2019 – 31 Mar 2019
Event times
28.-31. Mars, 13:00-20:00
Cost of entry
Free
| The Space Between | sets in parallel two projects by French artists, Candice Quédec alias m i n u i t and Nina Fradet, each presenting their more recent works focused on the materials they are exploring in their craft approach, the blown glass and woven bamboo, both allying Design and Art.
About
The works of the two artists contain the interstices, letting through the air and the light, are common in their fragility, yet different in their techniques, combining their similarities and their chasms, offering aerial show, playing between the heights and the grounds.
These two projects are brought together to perfect their expressiveness and give significance to this meeting between creative fields.
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"Torrential" by m i n u i t
Torrential is a project of glass suspension. Inspired by the rain and the original deluge, it comes to life with luminous reflections when a sunbeam passes through it.
As a delicate carillon, Torrential dances discreetly like the aurora borealis on winter evenings. It is a witness of the environment that reacts to the subtleties of the air.
For this project, Candice worked in collaboration with Simon Muller, French glass craftsman. Together they chose five colors of glass. From a midnight blue to a stormy gray.
Torrential evokes a moment out of time, suspended, between Art and Design. It takes the shape of a hundred sticks of glass drops in various sizes. Arranged in space, suspended from the ceiling like a big cloud. As time goes by, the cloud disappears. People can leave with part of the project, to carry away with them some parts of this rain. Thus, the downpour is spreading, and new rain clouds are emerging elsewhere.
After graduating from Ecole du Louvre in Paris, studies of History and a Graphic Design degree, she graduated lately at School of Fine Arts in Rennes. Inspired by the Northern wind and the salty taste of the sea, she creates the projects that mix poetry, sensitivity and the marine world. Exploring the writing, watercolor, glass and ceramics, she multiplies the media of creation to serve her intuition. Always leading a heavy work of documentary research and a field practice, her projects highlight the beauty of Nature, aiming to produce "little moments of bliss", of breathing, hovering out of time.
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“Weaved: A technique in praise of delicacy” by Nina Fradet
Displaying small woven objects in bamboo and wood, Weaved establishes a dialogue between both French and Japanese traditional know-how while settling itself in our contemporary society. Handcrafted by herself, from a learning with the young Japanese bamboo weaver Chiemi Ogura, these items are caught in-between fine pieces of art with abstract patterns' fragility, and household objects with functionality.
Nina mixes and highlights the cultures she meets during her travels, through a work scrambling the boundaries between Art, Craft and Design. Working with a contemporary vision regarding usages, shapes and materials, she establishes dialogues between different creative fields with the aim to raise awareness among people to save and pass down ancestral crafts, remaining an endless source of beauty.
Young multidisciplinary French artist, she graduated from a Baccalaureate of Applied Arts, an Advanced Technician Certificate of Interior design, a Vocational Training Qualification and an Arts and Crafts Diploma of cabinetmaking. She has increased her technical knowledge in Japan by learning side by side with artisans. Currently working in Iceland, she will also exhibit several works in March 2019 in Alliance Française and Studio MUN.
