Tiphaine Calmettes works towards inhabiting and heightening the fictions that shape our relationship to a territory. Using sculpture, installation and performance, she seeks to create movement in her shapes as well as her research. This is a way of envisaging the production process like a living organism, directly related to the spaces that welcome her productions, the people they encounter and vice-versa. She primarily focuses on developing a lifeform and organicity in her works. She then went on to encompass the idea of animating artefacts, both in their relationship to usage as well as to their environment or, in other words, she developed an interest in the way the production of objects and architectures are driven both by living species, or the energies that inhabit them, as well as by the physical or psychic interactions they develop with their surroundings.
Her creative process is a conversation with the history of skills and their reactivation in the present context. Thus, attentive to the context in which her work is produced, Tiphaine Calmettes collaborates with various craftspeople (rock artists, alchemists…). Informal, reversible, ephemeral techniques serve to animate the lifeform through performative actions. Her objects and narratives take the form of “edible stories” brought to life by revisiting sharing and commensality through flavours and encounters.
Tiphaine Calmettes (born in 1988) lives and works in Aix-en-Provence. She won the AWARE Prize in 2020. Her works have been exhibited notably at La Panacée MOCO (Montpellier), the Zoo gallery (Nantes), the Kunstwerk Carlshütte (Büdelsdorf, Germany), the École normale supérieure in Lyon, with the Biennale de Lyon 2019. In 2020-2021, she exhibited at the La Borne Contemporary Ceramics Centre (Henrichemont), the International Art and Landscape Centre–Île de Vassivière (Beaumont-du-Lac); she was also awarded a residency at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and at the Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac. In 2022 Tiphaine Calmettes participated in the group exhibition Pionnières at the Zoo gallery in Nantes.
Tiphaine Calmettes (born in 1988) lives and works in Aix-en-Provence. She won the AWARE Prize in 2020. Her works have been exhibited notably at La Panacée MOCO (Montpellier), the Zoo gallery (Nantes), the Kunstwerk Carlshütte (Büdelsdorf, Germany), the École normale supérieure in Lyon, with the Biennale de Lyon 2019. In 2020-2021, she exhibited at the La Borne Contemporary Ceramics Centre (Henrichemont), the International Art and Landscape Centre–Île de Vassivière (Beaumont-du-Lac); she was also awarded a residency at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and at the Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac. In 2022 Tiphaine Calmettes participated in the group exhibition Pionnières at the Zoo gallery in Nantes.