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Exhibition "The Elements and (Counter)times" - Mécènes du sud
This is an exhibition announcement for an artist residency project by Eléonore Grignon, an artist-designer and chef from Brittany, showcasing mixed-media works created during a residency at an olive farm estate in southern France.
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Get matched →This is a solo exhibition by Eléonore Grignon, a Breton artist-designer and chef, at La Mouche contemporary art space in Béziers. The exhibition concludes a year-long residency organized by Mécènes du Sud, with co-financing from the French Ministry of Culture via the DRAC Occitanie. Grignon spent two residency periods in summer and autumn 2024 at Domaine de Pradines le Bas, an olive estate, observing the harvest and witnessing severe weather damage to the olive crop in 2024. The title, "The Elements and (Counter)times," reflects this interdependence between weather phenomena and olive cultivation.
Eléonore Grignon is a Breton-based artist-designer and chef with a multidisciplinary practice rooted in ecology, agriculture, good food, and sensibility. Raised in a family connected to farming, weaving, and craft traditions, she develops her work through seven guiding actions: wandering, observing, harvesting, manipulating, assembling, playing, and sharing. She works with sustainable and local materials including natural fibers, linen, wool, plant dyes, wood, and flax seeds.
The exhibition presents a range of forms inspired by Grignon's stays at the olive estate, employing diverse materials—wood, metal, textile, olive leaves, thread—and techniques including weaving, knitting, drawing, installation, photography, and culinary practice. The works celebrate the seasonal rhythms of olive cultivation and honor the labor within the mill, emphasizing concepts central to oleiculture: resilience, balance, serendipity, robustness, serenity, repetition, transformation, sorting, pruning, and time.
For the first time, La Mouche links its two functions—exhibiting artworks and producing olive oil—through this residency and exhibition. Some of Grignon's forms, particularly a large structure in the main hall above the mill, evoke hospitality, care, and rest, creating an invitation to "be together" through simple yet elegant materiality and poetic observation of nature.
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