Immersive Residency

May 8 – June 22, 2025

Rencontre de fin de résidence : samedi 21 juin, à 16h.

Douglas Scholes grounds his artistic practice in a pragmatic aesthetic, prioritizing lived experience and the connections between art and everyday life. His work explores the cycles of extraction, production, and consumption. The idea of caring for and maintaining things, along with acts of cleaning, restoration, or repair, are central to his creative process. He thus describes his approach as an archaeology of the present and the ordinary.

Through sculpture, video, photography, and performance, Scholes takes an engaged and playful approach to revealing often-overlooked details of the environment. Her projects employ accessible and reusable materials, such as beeswax, which she frequently uses in her work. The artist views beeswax as a metaphor for community, social structures, and collective labor. Scholes also uses it for its poetic and functional qualities, its malleability, and its ecological neutrality.

During his stay in Frelighsburg, Douglas Scholes will be working on a new phase of his project Collections & Accumulations. He will meet with community members to explore the concept of collecting in the daily lives of several village residents. These interactions will inspire new works in photography, video, and sculpture.

Douglas Scholes – Adelard residencies beautés de Douglas Scholes

Studio

Interventions

Walking the Border

Exhibition in the barn

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