Spring Scafolding, 2012
Pauline Bétin
The notion of landscape is central to my work. I am mainly interested in spaces which mark the boundary between the urban and rural landscapes. My works bring into tension the borders between these two landscapes.
The allotment is one of those in-between spaces: a small plot of land which people can escape to. It reminds me a bolt hole and is a true space of freedom from which I draw my inspiration. It favours poetry and reflection and makes it possible to question this intermediate space between nature and culture.
The pieces reveal and question these confrontations between man-made and natural constructions, between glass and photography, between image and volume, between brightness and opacity.
Spring Scafolding, 2012
borders landscape, 2011
Born:
1986
Education:
2009
CERF AV, Vannes-le-Châtel, FR
European Glassmakers degree
2008
CERF AV, Vannes-le-Châtel, FR
CAP degree in Glass Decoration
2007
School of Fine Art, Rennes, FR
Three-year degree
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borders landscape, 2011
Screenprint on cast glass
24 x 10 x 38 cm
Photo: Pauline Bétin
The sculpture is inspired by two different kinds of landscapes – urban and rural – like an industrial garden. This work is focused on the meeting of photography and the texture, the thickness of the glass sculpture. A small garden is located on top of the building. Borders landscape reveals and questions confrontations between man and nature.
Spring Scafolding, 2012
Screenprint on cast glass
26 x 20 x 37 cm
Photo: Pauline Bétin
“Spring Scaffolding” represents an architectural utopia. This architecture is not permanent, it seems built by time. This house allows you to use poetic imagination, it is a contemporary subterfuge. I use the transparency of the glass on to which I apply a drawing derived from photography.
