28 SEPTEMBER – 15 OCTOBER
Presentation of the exhibitions – places must be reserved
Saturday 28 September at 4.30 pm
Sunday 29 September at 11.30 pm
Private viewing
Saturday 28 September at 6 pm
Discovery tours
Sundays 6 October 11.30 am to 12.30 pm
Jeltje Borneman, ceramist of the Ceramics Association of La Borne, will be on hand to guide you through the exhibitions –
an opportunity not to be missed for outreach and the sharing of ideas.
Conditions: standard exhibition admission fee apples.
Open everyday from 11 pm to 6 pm
LA BORNE RESIDENCIES
Javier Bravo de Rueda et Charlotte Poulsen (ACLB)
Le jardin de Ciro et autres histoires
From 2022 to 2023, La Borne welcomed Javier Bravo de Rueda to work with Charlotte Poulsen.
Javier Bravo de Rueda is a contemporary artist from Peru, living and working in Bilbao.
Charlotte Poulsen is a Danish ceramist, living and working in La Borne.
Javier and I met in my workshop. We began by talking to each other, sharing our respective stories and life experiences.
It was important for us to understand each other’s sensitivities and sources of inspiration in order for us to build the bridge we needed to be able to work together.
In doing so, we were able to tap into what is most precious to human beings, and what sustains artists – that part of the dream, that inner world that is barely palpable, that quest for unknown paths, as if we were trapped in fog.
Then the time came to give substance to the work in the studio. We chose to work on the same theme, side by side, but with each of us working on our own pieces, so retaining the freedom to choose the clay and techniques we used.
Charlotte Poulsen
RÉSIDENCES LA BORNE
Éléonore False et Anne-Marie Kelecom
Perles de terre
Between 2022 and 2023, La Borne welcomed Éléonore False to collaborate with Anne-Marie Kelecom. The residence, based on sharing and interaction between the visual artist and the ceramist, reflects their collaborative approach to artistic production, one that fosters a sense of mutual enrichment. Working on a mix of shapes, textures and colours, they created an installation representing an assemblage of giant ‘beads’ in the process of being assembled, with a thread acting as the unifying element. It’s a metaphor for two people working together, an idea that is being developed.
Éléonore False lives and works in Paris (75).
She is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Ensaama Olivier-de-Serres in textile design. Her work comes to life through actions that are intimately linked to her imaginary representations. Using collage, the artist collects fragments of images, cuts them up and melds motifs inspired by her observations of the world, the body and human artefacts. These elements are set in motion using various processes such as printing, collage, ceramics, sculpture and weaving.
Anne-Marie Kelecom lives and works in La Borne.
For thirty years, she has been developing a body of work drawn from the sources of the clay, around organic and architectural forms, in keeping with her imagination and vibrating in interaction with fire.
Nathalie Khayat, Charlotte Poulsen (ACLB) et Anne-Marie Kelecom (ACLB)
Najwa Nahas et Dominique Coenen
In 2022, the French Institute and the French Institute of Lebanon launched the NAFAS Emergency Programme, with 100 artists’ residencies in France for Lebanese artists, to help them at a time when the country had been severely hit by a series of crises.
The CCCLB and the ACLB welcomed Lebanese artists Nathalie Khayat (from 1 to 30 September 2022) and Najwa Nahas (from 9 September to 5 October 2023). Ceramists Anne-Marie Kelecom, Charlotte Poulsen and Dominique Coenen, all members of the ACLB, were also keen to take part in the programme. They shared their workshops and homes to create a forum for sharing and exchanging their knowledge and techniques in ceramics.
These two residencies culminated in a firing in the wood- fired kilns of Charlotte Poulsen and the CCCLB, giving the artists an opportunity to experiment with one of the traditional skills of our village, which stands a reference in the field of stoneware and wood-fired kilns.
The exhibition at the CCCLB from 28 September to 15 October 2024 will showcase the work produced during these two residencies.
Association Céramique La Borne
Permanent artistists
The ceramists:
Céline Alfroid Nicolas, Éric Astoul, Françoise Blain, Laurence Blasco Mauriaucourt, Jeltje Borneman, Myriam Bouchard, Patricia Calas Dufour, Fabienne Claesen, Dominique Coenen, Isabelle Cœur, Nicole Crestou, Suzanne Daigeler, Dalloun, Stéphane Dampierre, Bernard David, Marie David Géhin, Corinne Decoux, Ophélia Derely, Claude Gaget, Agnès Galvao, Dominique Garet, Geneviève Gay, Pep Gomez, Frans Gregoor, Catherine Griffaton, Jean Guillaume, Claudie Guillaume Charnaux, Viola Hering, Roz Herrin, Svein Hjorth-Jensen, Jean Jacquinot, Pierre Jaggi, Anne-Marie Kelecom, Labbrigitte, Daniel Lacroix, Jacques Laroussinie, Arlette Legros, Dominique Legros, Christine Limosino Favretto, Claire Linard, Machiko Hagiwara, François Marechal, Joël Marot, Élisabeth Meunier, Maya Micenmacher Rousseau, Francine Michel, Marylène Millérioux, Mélanie Minguès, Isabelle Pammachius, Nadia Pasquer, Christine Pedley, Lucien Petit, Charlotte Poulsen, Françoise Quiney, Michèle Raymond, Mia Refslund Jensen, Anne Reverdy, Sylvie Rigal, Alicia Rochina, Hervé Rousseau, Nicolas Rousseau, Lulu Rozay, Karina Schneiders, Georges Sybesma, Diane Truti, Jean-Pol Urbain, Émilie Vanhaecke, Nirdosh Petra van Heesbeen, Claude Voisin, David Whitehead, Seungho Yang.