Audrey Jamme and Xavier Martinez have combined their methods to develop a project around the idea of a cabinet of artisanal curiosities and to create a documentary space about the experiences and research conducted during a residency that took place between 3 June and 12 September 2025 at L’aparté. As the vocation of the cabinet of curiosities was to showcase the world, including the faraway (in time and space), the artists wished to use the vocabulary of scientific imagery – mathematical models, fluid mechanics, illusions, Gordian knots, architectural ornament, the chirality of stitching, meteorological representations – in order to map the connections between nature and culture and reveal the forms that allow us to explore human knowledge.
Audrey Jamme lives and works in Rennes. She studied at the École Estienne, the École des beaux-arts Rennes and ESAD Amiens. Her work is characterised by an experimental printing approach at the intersection of printing techniques, vernacular typography, ornamentation or art history. Ceramics is a new terrain of experimentation. In 2020, she joined an artists’ collective, Imprimeurs du Marché Noir. Since 2019 she has been teaching graphic design and screen printing at the EESAB site in Quimper, and engraving at the École des beaux-arts in Saint-Brieuc.
Xavier Martinez was born in 1981 in Casablanca (Morocco). He moved to Rennes in 2019. He is a graduate of Montpellier University and the École supérieure des beaux-arts in Nîmes. He explores a variety of disciplines: painting, suminagashi and photography with the traditional techniques of analogue printing.
