Welcome to the third Artist-in-residence Open Studio of the summer at SLIPVILLAN! The artist Apolline Grivelet will present the result of her project "Microscapes".
SLIPVILLAN
Mälarvarvsbacken 32, 117 33
Långholmen, Stockholm
Metro: Hornstull
2pm-5pm
"At the basis of my work lies a curiosity for the natural world, and need to understand the realtionship between humans and non-humans. For people my age, this scientific curiosity became a deep urgency, an urgency that today questions how visual artists could still work. We are weaving a tight line between our desire to produce art pieces that makes us think, while managing our environmental footprint.
Personally, I’m always drawn to large scale projects, where natural materials, common or rare, are used for their inherent properties, and are set up the evolve and change. Those projects can be physically large, take a long time, or be entirely in situ, and pose conservation challenges. Today, I find myself questioning these instinct and I would like to evolve my work towards a form of simplicity.
Therefore, for my time in the Slipvillan residency, I wish to work with a new media, or rather a new scale: microscopy.
First I would like to take that time to explore Stockholm and it’s surroundings, getting some understanding of history and environment, while sampling material to examine with my microscope. In France, I am an amateur naturalist and part of my personal time is dedicated to the observation and recording of the species I meet. This practice will be integrated to my research in Slipvillan, has a way to finding the materials and questions I wish to work on. Many early pioneers of natural history worked in Sweden and visits to the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet will be integral to the project.
On the other hand, I will experiment with the possibilities of creation with a microscope: what exactly can you do? Can you draw, sculpt, mold? With what materials? Alive, evolving, still? At what scale? How can you make it viewable to the public? How to build a show around it?
So far a lot of experimenting will be needed and it seems this residency will be an ideal environment, at the interface of city and the aquatic environment."
Apolline Grivelet is a visual artist, born in 1988. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2012. She lives and works in Quesnel-Aubry in the Hauts-de-France Region. Her practice, inspired by natural sciences, mainly focuses on the relationships between humans and their environment. Her artistic arrangements unfold over the long term, following an experimental approach and often include animals, plants, and biological processes.
www.apolline-grivelet.com
This residency is also part of a cross-residency program with the contemporary art center L'H du Siège-Valenciennes in France.
Apolline Grivelet’s residency at Slipvillan is made possible with the support of the City of Stockholm and the French Institute of Sweden.
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