L’aire neuve

A few cubic meters of earth and a body. Aire Neuve (a new threshing floor) is the name given to the surface of the ground dedicated to threshing wheat. In some regions, this was done with raw earth, using dances to compact the earth into a flat surface. Primarily a visual artist, Tiphaine Calmettes has been working with clay for several years now. At the CN D, her aim will not be to re-enact these traditional practices, but to explore the body's intimate and sensitive encounter with this material, or to explore its individuality and different forms of agentivity

Tiphaine Calmettes

Tiphaine Calmettes (born in 1988) lives and works in Paris. Through her practice of sculpture, installation and performative endeavors in the form of meals, she is interested in the relationship we have with our environment, and questions the interdependence between life forms and their status in our consideration of animate beings. Working with craftspeople and researchers, particularly in anthropology and history, she is interested in how our ways of being in the world can be reframed by reviving forgotten practices and knowledge. She seeks to bring these stories to life in the form of collective experiences.