ARTIST-RUN PROJECT “OM”
Migratory birds : Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Emilie Bitauld is both coordinator at the origin of the international group exhibition project Oiseaux Migrateurs (OM), and participating artist ; Her contemporary art installation includes aluminum multiples, designed to be suspended, which can also be acquired as jewelry or collectibles.
The “OM installation” is currently under development. However, you can see some of the multiples at the bottom of the page.
THE FOUNDER’S PIECES PARTICIPATING TO THE “OM” GROUP EXHIBITION
Her aluminum elements result from the lost wax casting process, as practiced in the region of Ban Naphia in Laos. It is the region of Laos where there are the most bombs left to defuse, millions of bombs whose main victims are children. The pieces are produced from the bombs which make impossible the cultivation of the soil, many decades after the “secret war” waged by the United States in Laos.
From the anthropologist to the interpreter, from mine clearers to various craftsmen, about fifteen partners are participating in this facet of the OM artist-run project.
This page is therefore an opportunity to present our work in partnership since the end of 2018.
At the oven : the female director of the craftsmen team that masters both defusing of bombs and melting their aluminium into new shapes.
This element of architecture used to be full of looking like toys bombs. Some bombs were painted in attractive colors. Others even looked like pineapple-shaped toys.
Months that the village school is closed. No Holliday : the rain was so strong this year that it made appear a gigantic bomb, full of smaller ones looking like... balls.
Not only part of contemporary art projects, in Phonsavan's area, bombs are used as pillars, to cook, to create a warm atmosphere, and more than one could imagine.
An advertising bomb tells that this previous farm now makes flatware.
The amazing Handicap international NGO interpreter Linda Vue arrives on her « moto » at our bombastic art studio.
PROCESS
From the first little prototype on paper, a wax or plastic prototype is sculpted. A lot of trials are necessary to create the perfect prototype, and then, from it, a functional mold that restitutes as much as possible the original aesthetic.
Creation of a mold (wood and clay), here for the limited edition multiple KISS
The careful application of ashes, here on the mold of LIBRELIE
From the traditional clay oven to the mold, a gesture that requires experience
Tighten the two parts of the mold tightly between themselves, here with a piece of Buddhist toga turned into a rope (every man in this community has to do kind of a “spiritual service” as a monk), and shake!
