Margeaux Bestard "Objet Trouvé"

Show through the end of November

Objet Trouvé* was created during seven months in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, where Margeaux Bestard spent the summer of 2021 working as a boatman. She brought with her gifted and found objects from her home on the rim in Flagstaff, AZ. 

This project explores the intersection of home with the sacred —what makes a home, and how does one experience the sacred within it, by braiding together her home on the rim with her home below. 

*objet trouve, noun: an ordinary object that is treated as art and is exhibited as such

Baccharis in Spoon with String & Fire Ant

Common Poorwill Feather in Spoon with Twine

Tarantula Hawk in Spoon with P-Cord and Crinoid

Yucca Pod in Spoon with Twine

Travertine Heart Rock in Spoon with String

Cicada in Spoon with P-Cord in Motor Well

Dried Rose in Spoon with White Ribbon on Cooler

Cicada in Spoon with Black P-Cord on Sidebox

Fish Hook in Spoon with Filament

Ten-Lined June Beetle in Spoon with 

Yucca Pod in Spoon

Tamarisk Flower in Spoon

Red Bud Seed in Spoon with Blue Ribbon; Stone Creek, Grand Canyon

Daffodil Pair with Blue Ribbon

Daffodil Group with P-Cord

Single Daffodil with P-Cord

Wilted Rose at Little Colorado River

Wilted Rose on Diamond Plate 1 

Wilted Rose on Diamond Plate 2 

Wilted Rose on Diamond Plate 3

Wilted Rose on Diamond Plate 4

Wilted Rose on Diamond Plate 5

Wilted Rose on Diamond Plate 6

Swift with Rose Petals and Blue Ribbon 1

Kathleen Williamson collaborative homage to Katie Lee 

Self Portrait with Hollyhock in Casita Azul

Objet Trouvé Spoon Contact

 

All frames in this exhibition were handcrafted in Flagstaff by Kimberly Murdza. Murdza’s metalwork acts as the perfect backdrop for Bestard’s art. As metal can transform from fluid to solid and back again, so Bestard’s art transmutes home into the sacred.