CHARLOTTE LARDINOIS

Charlotte Lardinois is a designer based in Paris. As an interior designer, she works on large scale projects, involving user’s ideas and needs in order to create places that answer to people’s daily activity, but which also embody a unique workstyle and provide sensitivity and care. Charlotte also experiments regularly with graphic and design techniques to work on specific fields around the human body, such as costumes, installations, and large-scale drawings. She recently rediscovered the art of silk-screening to enlarge small drawings and print them on a concrete or metal mesh. Exploring the material and the possibilities of hybridization or diversion are among her preferred working methods. She has studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and ENSAD in Paris, respectively. She has previously participated in two workshops at Boisbuchet, most recently in 2019 with Andrey Bartenev and his Triadic Ball.

Charlotte came to Boisbuchet to experiment and to test different ideas and materials in her working process. At first, she explored the site with the other creative residents and became increasingly interested in Boisbuchet’s apple orchard and how the apples changed from day to night. She visited the orchard at night to take photographs of the apples, with and without a flash, to document and analyse the shapes of the apples hovering in the dark. She then moulded the apples with plaster and cut them to reveal the different shapes of each apple slice. Step by step, Charlotte produced a printing device made of the apple slices moulded in plaster, with each print determined by the shape of the apple, as well as by the colour of the natural pigments Charlotte used in the process. Charlotte also produced a basket made to pick the apples in the September picking season. The project, “It’s All About the Apple”, or possibilities du pomme, was a direct result of Charlotte’s observations and explorations of Boisbuchet and its natural surroundings. For the future, she will keep in mind the process she used to develop her project here, with a focus on the creative impetus of working with other creatives in nature, bouncing ideas off of them and inspiring one another, as well as utilising the time and space to research and experiment with different material uses.