The narrative greenhouse where cities grow, a 360° journey
Charlotte Bourrus is a paper artist staging cities and countries in a unique multidimensional view. She crafts paper collage, accumulating them under glass globes, in a selection of around sixty cities and countries from around the world.
It takes Charlotte Bourrus one to two months to create a reference. Each of her creations is handmade in The Map studio in Bidart in south-west France. Around a hundred cut-out paper images are hung on piano strings and then arranged together in a glass dome. The result is a graphic, colorful, pop, joyful and unique universe, a vertical collage creating perspectives and a poetic universe. Each globe is unique.
Created in 2015, the globes revisit the collectible snow globe. A city we love and have left behind, the land of our childhood holidays, a moment in our lives or a journey we want to hang on to forever … or simply for the beauty of the art piece.
Why did étchéaz select Charlotte Bourrus / The Map?
All it took for Etcheaz to be launched was for Charlotte to say ‘yes’ to working with our team. We couldn’t conceive of our label without being able to represent The Map studio and Charlotte’s poetic world under glass globe. So, she has a very special place in our heart and in our catalogue.
We love her interpretation of the territory, the superimposition of layers of cut-out elements, the anachronisms and unique touch, like a ‘cabinet de curiosité’. Charlotte embraces the world by recreating it. It’s an invitation to daydream. As you can see, Etcheaz is a big fan!
Singapore, Switzerland, New York, Biarritz, Paris, Zermatt, each city is an interpretation, an artist’s appropriation of the space, a setting for subjective detail: each creation pushes the boundary of geographical representation, giving the streets, walked a thousand times or fantasized, a new light.
Available in four sizes, from 6 to 20 cm in diameter and 9 to 30 cm high.
