Public :
MMA class (Maintenance of Agricultural Equipment) and CGEA senior year class (Farm Management)

Location :
Gilbert Martin High School (Le Neubourg)

Time of intervention :
60h of artistic practice workshop + residence

Artist :
Sara Favriau (Paris)

Techniques :
Sculpture, performance, video

Device :
Jumelages

Partners :
DRAC, DRAAF, City of Neubourg

Process :
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.

Restitution:
The achievements made by the students and Sara Favriau lead to a restitution of several months in the exhibition space of the establishment.