Conception and execution of Linogravéean exhibition showcasing architectural mediation through linocut printing, Pixel [13] + Ensa Clermont-Ferrand + DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes + Collectif Supercali + Collectif CALK, 2025
The twin residency L’architecture à petits pas (Architecture in Small Steps) consisted of five weeks devoted to working with master's students at ENSA Clermont-Ferrand, secondary school pupils at Collège Albert Camus and children at Centre Mercœur on the themes of architecture, urban morphology and the wider landscape. Our project, Marcher avec l’eau qui court (Walking with Running Water), encourages a wide range of participants to explore water's place in the Clermont-Ferrand metropolitan area. Invisible most of the time, the river sometimes emerges and becomes an effective focal point for urban morphology, landscape and architecture. An exhibition of the results was on display at Ensa Clermont-Ferrand from 12 June to 12 July 2025 under the title Linogravée.
Focused on creating a link between the university and its neighbourhood, this residency, supported by regional arts authorities and the association Pixel [13], enabled us to develop a whole new teaching approach combining surveying and linocut printing.
Works presented are the result of an artistic and educational residency involving two separate mediation projects designed at Villa Sabourin, a place where people meet and sensibilities intersect. Between individual and collective productions, these creations range from linocut to drawing, from models to collage, including writing and performance. This diversity of media reflects the richness of interactions and perspectives on the two main themes of the exhibition: water in blue and memory in black. Produced in workshops with children from school to university, these works bear witness to a process of transmission as much as creation, telling us stories that are sometimes intimate, sometimes speculative, weaving mental or urban landscapes that dialogue with each other. By placing itself outside disciplinary classifications, Linogravée presents a cartography of sensibilities where each individual imprint enriches our collective memory.
La scénographie de Linogravée 's scenography links these two themes in a central installation called ‘The Wave’: aquatic eddies, ripples of memory. This wave structures the exhibition, inviting visitors to make comparative readings, juxtaposing the two mediations, Marcher avec l’eau qui court and Mémoire Fantôme , like the pages of the same open book. This exhibition is neither linear nor hierarchical: it can be interpreted according to one's movements and points of view. The scenography reflects the values promoted by this residency: horizontality, co-creation, conviviality. Linogravée thus becomes a sensory experience where architecture, landscape, urbanism and visual arts interact without imposing themselves.
