If, moreover, animals were to become fragmented, would we speak of the animal, the herd, the beast in pastures, of green blades choked with roots, chemistry, seedlings—in short, of wildlife raised for chops?
In the MMA (Agricultural Equipment Maintenance) class and the CGEA (Farm Management and Operations) senior class
at Gilbert Martin High School (Le Neubourg),
spring 2022.
With the students of the MMA class, Sara Favriau creates a series of 12 sculptures from burnt debris. The students first collect branches in the garden of remarkable trees of the Domaine d’Harcourt before cutting and sculpting them. Then, these creations are “cooked” in a collective fire. This gesture evokes circularity and recycling. This second life and the transformation of the sculptures question the durability of the work after destruction and its possible resurrection.
Sara Favriau and the senior year students of CGEA (agricultural management) have created a filmed performance : an expedition in the forest of Beaumont-le-Roger to bring to light the invisible. On a set of 9 cut stumps, the artist and the students unearth a part of the root networks, mirrors of the disappeared tussock of the cut trees. Between exercise of memory and archaeology, a poetic and titanic stake without specific output.
The achievements made by the students and Sara Favriau lead to a restitution of several months in the exhibition space of the establishment.
As part of the “Artist Residency Partnership Program” of the Normandy Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs, in partnership with DRAAF and the City of Le Neubourg.
