As part of the Partie Poétique’s research creation project, Stéphanie Sagot has completed the first stage of her project mapping tenderness and tension by creating a map of Tendre – Terre Amoureuse of Zone Sensible.
During her residency, Stéphanie Sagot explored the Zone Sensible space in order to highlight the richness and generosity of the committed and supportive practices that develop there through the prism of Zone Sensible typography. In doing so, she praises a space, imbued with love and mutual aid, located in a city facing social difficulties and the need to rethink its urban planning, in the midst of intense air and car traffic.
Stéphanie Sagot’s artistic work links territories and emotions, as well as earth and tenderness. She endeavours to document reality through a series of love stories rooted in specific places. These stories bear witness to the commitment of people who cultivate an aesthetic of care for all living things.
Her project is inspired by an ancient meaning of the word ‘love’, which referred to fertile land around 1200. In 1805, the expression “Terre amoureuse” (“loving earth”) appeared in agriculture, referring to well-tilled, fertile land, but disappeared from dictionaries in 1928, just as intensive agriculture was beginning to develop. For the artist, “Terre amoureuse” became a concept for thinking about creation as a political ecology, evoking a world in transformation, fertile and shaped by feelings. Travelling, meeting and mapping thus become an invitation to open up to the world and establish meaningful relationships.
The Carte de Tendre – Terre Amoureuse de Zone Sensible by Stéphanie Sagot and developed with Enoki is also inspired by the work carried out by the Enoki collective in 2022-2023. Through a board game, they imagined renewed food practices in a post-supermarket world, encouraging a collective intelligence that links inter-species alliances and human solidarity, notably through the introduction of Social Food Security.
Stéphanie Sagot is continuing her Cartographier Tendresses et tensions project in residence in the second space of Parti Poétique, Regains. In this second part of the project, Stéphanie will be surveying the Camargue to map the tenderness and tensions that exist there, from the medieval legends around Mary Magdalene’s journey through Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer to the fragility of the marine and saltwater ecosystems and the practices and struggles of farmers.
Follow the progress of the project on the Parti Poétique’s website and on Stephanie Sagot’s website
