About
L’Élanographe is a space for creation-research initiated by artist and researcher Tiphaine Scott de Martinville to explore how an orientation can take shape through encounters with existing frameworks and often paradoxical demands.
In a world structured by rules, expectations and constraints, some paths seem written in advance, if not governed by performance imperatives. What room remains to draw one’s own orientation and give it meaning through the unexpected, hesitation, detours and rebounds?
The project begins with an institutional and professional paradox: individuals and groups are asked to imagine new futures, while the language, timeframes, and outcomes of that imagination often remain governed by performance imperatives.
It brings together drawing, language, objects, movement and collective experimentation to turn situations into traces that can be moved, connected and redrawn.
No fixed North.
Other directions remain possible.
Founder
L’Élanographe was initiated by French artist and researcher Tiphaine Scott de Martinville.
Her practice examines how a trajectory takes shape in relation to prescribed directions, and how resistance, interruption or return may alter its course. A trajectory is material, situated and relational: it forms through contact with particular conditions, gestures and other voices.
Through drawing, notation, installation, performance, publishing and digital forms, she develops situations in which trajectories can be traced, displaced and put back into play.
Tiphaine’s work allows a line of inquiry to move between supports as it unfolds. For her, art keeps this field of inquiry open, without determining in advance where the research should lead. She describes this relation to creation as an initiatory dialectic, in which making and not knowing continually alter what is taking shape, and meaning may emerge through the trajectory itself.
Tiphaine’s background in law, mediation and facilitated professional conversations has sharpened her attention to the frameworks that organise speech and action, and to the expectations they produce. Her artistic practice takes these conditions as material.
Tiphaine holds 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.
An evolving creation–research environment
L’Élanographe is a creation-research environment shaped by encounters with other practices, situations, and forms of participation.
Collaboration brings bodies, materials and constraints into play. Each activation may make other relations perceptible, while use, disagreement and transformation can redirect the work. L’Élanographe unfolds across physical, editorial, digital and situated forms.
L’Élanographe remains open by design: an encounter may alter the map, the instrument or the question itself.