Helena Le Gal and Marie Bretaud are both landscape architects and artists working together under the name of “Atelier TçPç”. Their work is influenced by the blend of different practices, crossing different tools of both their artistic and architectural background;...
Read More Helena Le Gal and Marie Bretaud are both landscape architects and artists working together under the name of “Atelier TçPç”. Their work is influenced by the blend of different practices, crossing different tools of both their artistic and architectural background; and through “art and landscape” questions places, expresses myths and stories of new representations, and shares them.
After studying applied arts between 2004 and 2007 in Nevers and Nantes, Helena and Marie studied space design for two years in Strasbourg and Paris. They met at the National School of Architecture and Landscape of Bordeaux where they graduated in 2015.
During their final years of study, they seek to create new ways of working on the landscape. Interested by the affective dimension that places can contain, they create the workshop tcpc to find a space of expression and experimentation parallel to their studies.
From 2014, they lead projects more or less long term, more or less large scale, always animated by this question of the relationship between inhabitants and landscapes through an environnemental art.
Since 2017, they are co-founders of the grOEp collective: an association of visual artists from Bordeaux leading collaborative projects, meetings with the public and international exchanges. In particular, the association develops a reflection on the commitment as an artist in order to claim its status and place as a professional in today's society.
From a garden to large territories, from cities to countryside, or even in spaces that are neither, TçPç is devoted in reminding us that a landscape is, above all, a matter of engagement and emotion, of connection to things rather than a simple consideration of things. In their work they repeatedly question this idea, preferring collaborative projects that allow them to involve themselves and to mingle freely with a system of profound relationships. Their interdisci-plinary approach is rooted in their ongoing renewed and reestablished partnerships, which are allowing them to con-ceive the landscape trough different and otherwise related disciplines.
