11 Sheep's field

Creation in Melle

The starting point is a large pile of wood pieces, logs, and tree trunks accumulated at the materials storage site of the technical services of the town of Melle. This wood primarily comes from trees fallen during recent violent storms. Transported to a meadow, these fragmented and dislocated trees metamorphose into a more or less organized ensemble, a constellation of recomposed trunks whitened with lime wash. Layering segments of different diameters and various wood species typical of the region (such as acacias, oaks, birches, and chestnuts), the trunks stand erect as an impossible restitution of the forest they once formed. They are fragile witnesses of a territory shaped by turbulent times.

Similar to the installation " Après avoir retourné le champ" (2019), exhibited at the Jeanne d'Arc hall, this new creation for the Biennale de Melle is part of a series of sculptural works by Jan Kopp. Borrowing elements from plants or natural phenomena, Kopp composes spaces that depict landscapes in precarious, inverted, balanced, or unstable situations.