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Artist residency in business partnership with Banque Populaire du Sud - Mécènes du Sud
Artists are invited to apply for a residency in a company setting to create collaborative artworks with volunteer employees, resulting in site-specific installations.
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Get matched →The residency welcomes artists to create site-specific works within company spaces. Working with a volunteer team from the host company, artists collaborate through meetings, conversations, and experimentation to develop art proposals. The program exemplifies art and enterprise partnership, with artists designing installations and functional pieces using recycled materials.
The residency features Jeanne Martin-Taton and Marie-Marie Vergne, who founded the Crafties studio in 2018. Using textile as their primary medium, they create monumental frescos by assembling, coloring, and recycling materials. For this residency at Banque Populaire du Sud, they led the co-creation of an installation in a new break room, centered on the theme of an interior garden.
In collaboration with volunteer employees of Banque Populaire du Sud, the artists created a total art proposal featuring a modular curtain adorned with flowers and bright colors, custom seating, and storage furniture for games and books made from recycled materials. The project required balancing the group's desires, the artists' vision, and budget constraints.
"This experience is very professional in several aspects (budget management, subcontractor management, and many stakeholders), and artistically we had to compromise with the group's wishes, our ideas, and the budget. It is a first step toward other projects of this scale; textile applied to office spaces is very interesting and opens up possibilities." — The Crafties
Banque Populaire du Sud's new offices in the Montpellier-Sète-Béziers region. The artists work from their studio in Sète.
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