MAISON GONNER

Assistance for artist duo Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil

2022

Maison Gonner, indoor and outdoor installation

Artists : Feipel & Bechameil in collaboration with Heisbourg & Strotz Architects

Photos : © Linda Blatzek, © Patty Neu, © Rachel Hoffmann

Publication : 2022

Scope : 6 Bas-relief, 5 bird nests

Materials : Acrylic mass, ceramics

Exhibition : permanent installation

During my assistance for Feipel & Bechameil in 2022 we created a permanent on-site installation for Maison Gonner.

For the cultural event Esch 2022, Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil created a „Bas-relief“ over two levels for the once industrial Maison Gonner which was transformed into a guesthouse by Heisbourg & Strotz architects. The indoor artwork functions as the entrance doors to the bedrooms. On the outside wall of the house, bird nests have been integrated into the bricks in order to recreate a link to the artists indoor work and to create a safe space for the common swift, a breed that typically nests in house walls :

“Permanent indoor and outdoor installation conceived for the Gonner House. An industrial site transformed into a guesthouse by Heisbourg & Strotz architects in collaboration with the artists Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil The Gonner House is part of the Minetttrail.
In their work the artists wished to revalue the industrial inheritance and to imagine the Gonner House like a place of cohabitation between the past and the present, between mankind and nature. The artist meant to pay a tribute to the nature by giving the place partly back to it. In this way the main facade has been provided with glazed ceramic birdhouses that implemented inside the façade, they will allow birds in housing difficulties to find shelter and nest.
Inside the building the artists conceived a bas-relief that stretches over the walls of the two floors and includes the doors leading to the rooms. The artwork represents a tree from the roots to the treetop, it stands as a central pillar keeping the house upright. And becomes a way of glorifying nature and the living in its various form”.

- Text : Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery