CHARLOTTE GOFFETTE

Originally from Belgium, Charlotte Goffette graduated from the Superior School of Art and Design in Saint-Étienne and the Superior School of Art and Design in Orléans. Her field is in the areas of product and spatial design. A lover of meteorology, she develops projects linking storytelling and natural resources. Many of her works are grouped under the theme of the wind, in particular with her Avel project, which had been conceived within the framework of Design Week in Zlín (Czech Republic) and Bratislava (Slovakia).

If the weather worries us today, its representation remains a source of fascination. Associated with divinities, celebrated in the arts, contemplated or endured, these intangible manifestations have a meaningful narrative. With the expansion of urban life, interest in the existence of these elements has become peripheral and often associated with coercion. The best-known devices are those which provide immediate economic returns.

However, there is a poetic potential in the weather, in particular in the wind, that this series of objects produced during Charlotte´s week of residency at Boisbuchet seeks to capture. They materialize the permanent evolution of the wind and allow you to contemplate the movements of the air.

Like a storyteller, Charlotte creates preparatory drawings combining daydreams, fictional narratives and sensitivity. They then serve her upstream, like a tool to represent different ideas, and to allow her to express herself and to physically materialize her ideas. The shapes drawn never stop transforming according to random circumstances. The idea being that the real and the imaginary wander together as soon as they are given the opportunity. She creates a visual universe deliberately manipulating different shapes and graphic codes. Each time, it’s about improvising in complete freedom; to build, destroy, then rebuild a world in the midst of a metamorphosis. Boisbuchet, through its natural environment, allowed Charlotte to manufacture these objects and to contextualize them.