About

L’Élanographe is a space for creation-research initiated by artist and researcher Tiphaine Scott de Martinville.

It explores how a direction becomes perceptible through making, especially when the demands placed upon us pull in different ways.

At a time when individuals and groups are asked to imagine new futures, while the language, timeframes, and outcomes of that imagination often remain governed by performance imperatives, L’Élanographe asks what other movements may still be possible.

The works invite people to give these tensions a form and spend time with what happens as they move it.

Tiphaine Scott de Martinville

I began as a lawyer. More than 20 years ago, I moved away from a predominantly corporate path to give creation a central place in my life. Making became a way of bringing thought into contact with language, gestures, materials and forms.

Alongside this creation path, my ‘corporate’ work has also involved listening to people as they find their way through complex situations. I have often encountered the same tension: people are asked to imagine something new while the language, timeframe and expected outcome are already largely prescribed.

These experiences inform the questions from which my practice begins: with language and the traces it leaves. A word heard in conversation may become a drawing; that drawing may become a sign, a map or a score for someone else to activate.

L’Élanographe gives this work a place to develop and encounter other people. Its forms invite you to draw, move and recompose the forces shaping a path.

I later returned to art school. I hold a DNSEP from TALM Le Mans and completed the Non-Visual Art programme at L’ENDA and the EDAM Master’s programme at Paris 8 University.

No fixed North. Other directions remain possible.

An evolving creation–research environment

The next stage of L’Élanographe is to bring together people whose work encounters questions of orientation, memory, contradictory demands, performance and creation.

Artists, philosophers, anthropologists, researchers and people from other fields may contribute different materials, gestures and ways of thinking.

The group will take shape through conversations, workshops, activations and situated projects. These encounters may alter an instrument, open another question or lead the work in an unforeseen direction.

Each trajectory remains singular. Where several lines meet, a shared field of inquiry can begin to emerge. L’Élanographe is open to people and places interested in developing these connections.

What could we explore together?