IDA MITRANI ART
The Embardée Collective - Kefloc'had
An exhibition featuring the work of Caroline Boyfield, Ida Mitrani, Rebecca Bradley and Laure Colomer.Developed following a series of artist residencies in Ireland and Brittany throughout 2024 and 2025, supported by Sample Studios in Cork and Atelier Penlan in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, the exhibition explores the profound connections between maritime landscapes, cultural identities, ecological concerns and contemporary artistic practices within the Breton and Irish contexts.Kefloc'had brings together a new body of work alongside works produced since the inception of this three-year collaboration, reflecting the ongoing dialogue between the participating artists and the two regions.
The work presented in this exhibition is part of an ongoing research project exploring plants’ strategies for survival in hostile environments. Drawing from explorations of wild and local landscapes in Finistère and West Cork, one of the installations, conceived specifically for the space of La Préb’, unfolds across the wall and floor, inviting visitors to reconsider the plant world.Spanning two ten-metre-long rolls of black paper, the site-specific installation brings together cut-outs, pastel drawings, and sculptural elements, creating an immersive landscape in which vegetation appears to gradually escape the surface of the paper and inhabit the surrounding space. Installed in unexpected areas of the building, these works draw attention to plants that are often overlooked or unnoticed within our everyday environments.
Le jardin obscur, 2026 Wall and floor installation: paper, black paper cut-outs, gesso on rubble, pastel on paper cut-outs. Variable dimensions (approximately 10 m on the floor; wall installation approximately 7 × 1.2 m)
The large plastic installation, created using about one hundred recycled milk bottles, explores ideas of transformation, adaptation and imitation. Algae-like plastic forms evoke the concept of mimicry,where organisms simultaneously evolve to resemble, adapt to, and compete with one another.The work questions the boundaries between the natural and the artificial, creating hybrid forms that reflect processes of evolution and survival found in the living world. The installation suggests a dialogue between organic growth and human-made systems, imagining new forms that emerge between nature, technology and ecological change.
Fragments of the Last Ocean, 2026Installation of cut-out recycled milk bottles, variable dimensions (approximately 4 m × 70 cm × 30 cm).
