{"id":2594,"date":"2016-06-16T17:34:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2016-11-02T23:48:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T22:48:06","slug":"creation-theodora-barat-artist-in-residence-at-petite-escalere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/creation-theodora-barat-artist-in-residence-at-petite-escalere\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation: Th\u00e9odora Barat <\/br>Artist-in-Residence at La Petite Escal\u00e8re"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00ab Ils allaient obscurs, dans la nuit solitaire \u00bb\u20261<\/sup>
\nIn 2014, artist Th\u00e9odora Barat spent a month at La Petite Escal\u00e8re, a sculpture garden located in south-western France along the Adour River, for a research and creation residency.\u00a0<\/span>With \u201cTerrain\u201d, in which film, sculpture and installation come together, bringing narration to one, volume to the other, Th\u00e9odora Barat\u2019s work is immersed into a night where contours and depths are redefined by artificial light and where Ballard\u2019s science fiction, Corman\u2019s cinema and Smithson minimalism meet. In the film presented here and created during her residency for Sculpture Nature, Th\u00e9odora Barat makes us discover the garden. \u00a0<\/span>Everything starts with the sound \u2013 the footsteps which accompany the swift approach of the camera, the creaking of the ground, the bending branches, a few nocturnal hoots. The camera searches, gropes around in complete darkness, guided only by a pale, narrow light, splattering in a halo on the vegetation it hits. Mysterious, incomplete shapes \u2013 maybe a few of the garden\u2019s regular visitors will recognize some of the outdoor sculptures from its collection \u2013 which appear furtively, like monsters out of the \u201cdescent to the underworld\u201d of Virgil\u2019s Aeneid. \u00a0<\/span>No spatial or temporal point of reference to reassure us. No aim or destination to give meaning to these visions \u2013 this film is a horizontal, depthless, fascinating dive. <\/span><\/p>\n

Th\u00e9odora Barat<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Born in 1985, Th\u00e9odora Barat studied at the School of Fine Arts in Nantes where she primarily focused on projection and video installation. In 2010, she entered le Fresnoy \u2013 National studio of contemporary arts \u2013 where she directed her first film, Or Anything at All Except the Dark Pavement,<\/i> a silent dollying shot in 16mm and a free adaptation of a text by Tony Smith where he recounts a night trip on a highway under construction. This film was selected in numerous festivals such as Les rencontres Internationales Paris\/Berlin\/Madrid, IndieLisboa, C\u00f4t\u00e9 court, as well as Boston Video Art\u00a0<\/span>Her installations and sculptures are displayed in places such as Glassbox (Paris), La Fabrique (Toulouse, France), Contemporary Art Center\u00a0(Vilnius, Lituania), LABoral (Gij\u00f3n, Spain).\u00a0<\/span>She takes part in many creation residencies, among which Glassbox, La Petite Escal\u00e8re, Pollen (Monflanquin), le CNES-Observatoire de l\u2019espace and C\u00f4t\u00e9 Court, where she won the artist residency award in 2012 for her film Panorama z\u00e9ro,<\/i> which also received the 2014 Exp\u00e9rience du festival de court-m\u00e9trage award in Nice.\u00a0<\/span>In 2015, Th\u00e9odora Barat was pre-selected for the Prix D\u00e9couverte des Amis du Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In 2016, she received the Audi Talent Award for her project \u201cLearning from New Jersey\u201d in the contemporary art category.<\/span><\/p>\n

La Petite Escal\u00e8re<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/a>The gardens of La Petite Escal\u00e8re host a large collection of modern and contemporary artwork. This private site allows a unique dialogue between sculpture and nature and is dedicated to promote creation, research and exchange around and about art and landscape.\u00a0<\/span>Twice a year, La Petite Escal\u00e8re welcomes multidisciplinary artists and researchers \u2013 visual artists, writers, illustrators, exhibition curators\u2026 \u2013 for research and creation residencies, thus offering them a privileged setting to work on ongoing or new projects. La Petite Escal\u00e8re is a\u00a0member of the French federation of artist residencies, Arts en r\u00e9sidence \u2013 R\u00e9seau National <\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

1<\/sup> Virgile, En\u00e9ide :<\/em>\u00a0\u201c They went mysteriously, into the solitary night\u2026 \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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