SHELTERS
The series ‘Shelters’, consists of small ceramic sculptures as well as functional birdhouses. Through vivid colors of the glaze and through their partly geometric and sometimes organic shapes, these sculptures evoke joyful characters.
Feipel & Bechameil started to develop the birdhouses with the project ‘Cité d’urgences - Apus Apus’ and gave been awarded in 2018 the special price of the Jury from the COAL award in collaboration with the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris. The birdhouses are dedicated to the species whose survival is directly endangered by the scarcity of their habitat due to our modern lifestyle. The birdhouses aim to offer a new form of housing for the birds and hope to help re-integrated them within our living space and to allow a poetic co-habitation of mankind and other forms of nature.
REBELS
The Rebels series (2022), deals with the human figure. These sculptures draw a link between the series of Shelters and the public art project Les Brutalistes. However, if all these works belong to the same aesthetic register, the lines and geometric shapes of the Rebels are no longer only the expression of an architecture, but also that of a character, of a revolt. Taken together, these three projects demonstrate both the diversity and plastic rigor of the entire work of Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil, as well as its ability to find applications in reality, by creating links in the public space as in natural areas.