2021

Y’oiseau

ZAC de La Courrouze, Rennes, France

About ten masts are arranged in the small clearing located in front of the ZAC de la Courrouze hall, to the south-west of the city of Rennes. They make up a small forest, a set of thin, flexible poles shimmering and swaying in the wind. Dominique Perrault and Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost imagined an outdoor artistic installation, light and lively, nourished by various artistic references from conceptual and minimal art, kinetic mobiles and musical sculptures like those of the sculptor Takis. Designed in collaboration with the BLAM workshop and developed according to the recommendations of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO), the nesting boxes are designed at two different heights, in order to provide a suitable habitat for the tit and the nuthatch.

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« How can we manage to bring an additional poetry to what birds already do naturally by delicately building their nests? We were inspired by nature, with the wish of a project expressing a form of evidence, by a design of simple and modest appearance, in its form and its means. We wanted to carry out a project that can be easily understood, and that visitors can therefore appropriate, or even be tempted to reproduce. This is also the vocation of this nest: an educational, joyful and inspiring installation. » Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost