Polluting Structures, Workshop by Adrien Tirtiaux and Elodie Antoine

POLLUTING STRUCTURES, WORKSHOP BY ADRIEN TIRTIAUX AND ELODIE ANTOINE

Belgian artists Adrien Tirtiaux and Elodie Antoine held a workshop on October 7, between 11 am and 1 pm, in the studio of Drina Orchard Sepúlveda, teacher of Visual Arts at the Antofagasta British School. The guests shared their previous works and, particularly, those prepared for the biennial.

To allow a better understanding of their work, they presented the conceptual idea which they called Polluting Structures. It was related to the different ways of interrupting the habitats where life develops collectively, and how they generate dialogs, reflections and resignifications of the mundane universe. Adrien approaches it particularly from the sudden irruption of architecture, while Elodie focuses on the parasitic contamination of works that cohabit with architecture and spaces. Adrien approaches it from the sudden irruption of architecture, while Elodie focuses on the parasitic contamination of works that cohabit with architecture and spaces.

The artists encouraged the students to reflect on and propose a creative work around this particular idea of contaminating structures. They were required to get together in groups and come up with collaborative ideas. This process resulted in impressive works that questioned the environmental impact of human development on nature, and how nature is capable of reclaiming its exploited spaces; in addition to other works that reflected on corruption in politics as well as in religion.