Ema Pradère's eco-responsible project will take place both in the workshop and on the Campus MaNa grounds. As part of this ceramic training, the artist is proposing an initiative that is particularly close to her heart, combining respect for the environment and learning various ceramic techniques. Participants will create a relief wall, specially designed for local birds, which will be installed outdoors. This terracotta wall will serve as a refuge, a watering hole and a protective totem for avian fauna.
The main advantage of this training is learning how to use terracotta as a building material. An innovative approach that will be put into practice on the Campus MaNa site.
At the end of the training, the trainee will have assimilated:
Ema Pradère seeks to raise awareness of the problem of limited access to water for wildlife in urban areas and in some rural areas, where the excessive presence of concrete prevents birds from drinking. The installation of a wall integrating water troughs and nesting boxes, also offering protection against predators, is a simple solution to this problem. This wall acts as a micro architecture, thus promoting biodiversity. Made of terracotta, it has the capacity to absorb water during rains and to restore humidity gradually.
Morning
Introduction and presentation of Ema Pradère's work
Participants' round table
Presentation of the various ceramic techniques around the world
Afternoon
Individual and collective reflections on the wall of life project
Installation of the ceramic workshop
Morning
Rolling out with guides
Creation of the earthenware plates that will be used to build the wall
Afternoon
Monitoring the production of the plates and the earthenware relief elements
Morning
Monitoring the production of the elements
Finishing of all the elements that will be used to build the wall
Afternoon
Firing of the elements
Personalized individual monitoring
Morning
Making the wall
Afternoon
Making the wall
Morning
Finishing the installation of the wall and its relief elements
Afternoon
Presentation of the project and the approach
Collective restitution
Ema Pradère is a ceramic artist whose work reflects her personality: gentle, powerful and exalted. After briefly working as a doctor, she devoted herself to her passions for painting and dance. Her travels around the world, particularly to India, Japan and Egypt, nourished her art and led her to explore pottery. Inspired by nature and mountains, she integrates these elements into her stoneware or porcelain creations, which combine power and fragility. Her ceramics, influenced by the art of Kintsugi, seek a balance between instability and harmony, like her creative dance.
Specializing in tableware, she brings a contemporary touch to ancestral know-how from around the world. Inspired by traditional techniques from different continents, she enriched her expertise after a four-year trip through Asia, Africa and Europe.
Passionate about matter and movement (Ema having a solid background in dance), she rediscovers the meaning of gesture through working with clay. With great freedom, she can repeat the same gesture over and over again, like a Zen gardener. She ultimately likes to leave room for chance, an element that she appreciates and with which she likes to play.
She collaborates with renowned chefs such as Hélène Darroze and Alexandre Mazzia.
Her creations are exhibited in various fairs, such as the PAD Paris and Geneva, the Hôtel de l'Industrie, or Thema Fair, in collaboration with the digital gallery "l'œil de KO". She also collaborates with brands such as Jars.
Price(s) including the cost of training, accommodation and full board, materials and personal protective equipment.