Moly-Sabata, Sablons
Audrey Ballacchino, Bastier Morin, Marianne Castelly, Michel Cohen, Jérôme Galvin, Julia Gilles, Andrea Moreno, Jean Ponsart, Zélie Rouby, Livia Spinga
Moly-Sabata is France’s oldest active artists’ residency, making its studios and resources available to some thirty artists a year, by invitation only. For its fifth participation in Art-o-rama as a partner of the show, Moly-Sabata is changing the format of its contribution by designing a new avatar of the Moly shop, a boutique for utilitarian ceramics. Ten male and female potters based between Moly and the Mediterranean were called upon to display nearly 400 pieces of tableware priced between €30 and €500.
In Moly-Sabata, the Moly shop offers the public the chance to buy objects made in workshops all over the country and beyond. The initiative follows on from the success of the “Aux foyers” exhibition-sale held on site in autumn 2020, which revived the local tradition of the village buying its crockery from Moly-Sabata. Continuously open within the artists’ residence, the Moly shop was first exported to Strasbourg in 2022 for the “Au Bonheur” exhibition at CEAAC, which brought together craftspeople from Alsace. Material support for its community of artists continues: 30% of sales are allocated to production grants, with the remainder going to exhibitors.
