I run to you to tie your shoes

Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier
Address
7 rue Ferrère, 33000 Bordeaux Map
Hours
Tue+Thu–Sun 11 am–18, Wed 11 am–8 pm

By exhibiting their “Atlas of Natural Regions” at arc en rêve, Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier question the limits between the architectural and the vernacular. As the title suggests – borrowed from a piece by Brian Eno – they praise a free and diversified practice of construction…

For five years, Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier have criss-crossed French territory in order to document the 450 natural regions or “countries” that make it up in an equal manner. Starting from these old historical or geographical entities such as Artois, Morvan or Béarn, they endeavor with patience and meticulousness to describe our ways of investing the landscape, of inhabiting it, of shaping it.

Presented in the white gallery of arc en rêve, the exhibition I run to you to lace your shoes is dedicated to this ambitious photographic adventure. By focusing in particular on the question of construction, the artists question, with the curiosity that is theirs, the limits of the architectural discipline through marginal practices: self-construction, personal initiatives, houses of masons or art brut are so many strategies that shape, without our realizing it, many of the built objects of our territories.

Although it maintains a close link with architecture, their research in fact runs counter to its scholarly meaning and draws up an unreasoned repertoire of forms, often modest, that occur in rural or peri-urban environments.
By exhibiting their Atlas of Natural Regions at arc en rêve, Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier question the limits between the architectural and the vernacular. As the title suggests – borrowed from a piece by Brian Eno – they praise a free and diverse practice of construction in which the tinkered, the patched up and the improvised replace the normative temptation of architecture. "scholarly".