Anne-Laure Franchette (born 1979 in Le Plessis-Bouchard/France) collects urban textures and narratives. In her works she links material structures with immaterial levels - desires and projections.

Manon Briod (born 1988) uses object design as a starting point to analyse processes of industrial production and consumption from the perspective of their socioecological impact. Her current research focuses on bacterial biopolymers, which are determined by the fluidity and transience of their material, degrade over time and vanish without a trace.

More about Anne-Laure and Manon

The collaboration between the two artists began in 2021, when Anne-Laure Franchette and Manon Briod explored the theme of waste as part of the Geneva Biennale ‘(re)connecting.earth (02) - Beyond Water’. The starting point for their joint installation ‘À nos épaves’ is waste from Lake Geneva washed up in the Pointe à la Bise nature reserve. Their work consists of a series of banners made of bioplastics and a read-er including a photo documenta-tion of the plastic waste collect-ed on site, a waste encyclopae-dia, samples of bioplastics, research and press articles. The focus is on issues of production and materiality, on the history of industrial mass production of complex materials that are diffi-cult to dispose of, but also on current research into new mate-rials that can integrate harmo-niously and/or dissolve in differ-ent environments.

The banner exhibited in the Stadtgalerie Kiel was created by Manon Briod from bacterial polymers and organic waste (bi-oplastics, food pigments, sand and algae).