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Maude Léonard-Contant was selected for the 2024 working grant of the Frey-Näpflin Foundation. The grant supports artists with ties to Central Switzerland and includes an exhibition at the Nidwaldner Museum and an accompanying publication.
In the pavilion of the Winkelried House, the artist presents an installation-based floor work and objects closely connected to her adopted home in Central Switzerland and her country of origin, Canada. In collaboration with charcoal burner Doris Wicki from Entlebuch, Maude Léonard-Contant transformed wood from trees that had fallen in storms after being weakened by increasingly hot summers into fragile charcoal objects. She combines them with materials significant to her, such as sweet grasses, ceramics, glass, jade, ash, matcha tea, lime, salt lick stone, and text. Many of these materials also change their state under the influence of heat and sunlight. In the transformation undergone by the installation and objects lies the only certainty:…
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Maude Léonard-Contant was selected for the 2024 working grant of the Frey-Näpflin Foundation. The grant supports artists with ties to Central Switzerland and includes an exhibition at the Nidwaldner Museum and an accompanying publication.
In the pavilion of the Winkelried House, the artist presents an installation-based floor work and objects closely connected to her adopted home in Central Switzerland and her country of origin, Canada. In collaboration with charcoal burner Doris Wicki from Entlebuch, Maude Léonard-Contant transformed wood from trees that had fallen in storms after being weakened by increasingly hot summers into fragile charcoal objects. She combines them with materials significant to her, such as sweet grasses, ceramics, glass, jade, ash, matcha tea, lime, salt lick stone, and text. Many of these materials also change their state under the influence of heat and sunlight. In the transformation undergone by the installation and objects lies the only certainty:…
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