Titel: Absence (été)
Absence (summer)
Seasons series
Format: 183 x 277 cm – 6 ft x 9 ft 1 in
Weight: 3820 g – 8 lb 7 oz
Date: 2023 – 2024
No. 280.2024.3
Technique: Textile squares, hand-quilted and assembled to produce a 3-dimensional effect on a canvas base with a wool core,
4,675 4-cm – 1.57 in squares
Description: The series depicts the seasonal development of semi-aquatic, pond plants on a ridge at over 2,000 m in altitude. Come the end of a blistering summer, both the water and plants are conspicuously, glaringly absent.
Inspired as much by West African bogolan as the ephemeral beauty of Andy Goldsworthy’s works, Absence lends a voice to the crack and crevices of the parched land.
Echoing the aridity of the topic, the work draws on a frugal array of some 20 fabrics. An arrangement of raw and robust canvases alongside linen formerly used in prisons.
Around the clumps of earth baked dry, irregular yet achingly similar crevices crackled by the heat, as if trimmed with an incandescent metal or mica.
Title: La peau du monde 2 (automne)
The Skin of the World 2 (autumn)
Seasons series
Format: Five panels each 150 x 48 cm – 4 ft 1 in x 1 ft 7in
Weight: Five panels each 0.430 g – 15 oz
Date: 2017- 2023
Nos. 266.2023.14 to 270.2023.18
Technique: Textiles assembled by hand in three dimensions
surface quilted on canvas with a silk core in hollowed-out broken lines.
Five blocks of 1,365 3-cm – 1.18 in squares
Description: Envisaged as a mirror image of The Skin of the World 1, The Skin of the World 2 is divided into five vertical compositions installed at varying distances depending on the location, which can also stand alone as works in their own right. The “honeycomb” surface reveals an all-new fabric with a relief pattern. The textile fragments seem to each melt into the next, producing a blurry optical sensation, almost Impressionist in its feel. Hovering between scales, fur, feather and bark, The Skin of the World 2 projects a distillation of life itself, in constant motion.
Title: La peau du monde 1 (automne)
The skin of the World 1 (autumn)
Seasons series
Format: 152 x 215 cm – 4 ft 12 in x 7 ft 1 in
Weight: 2.040 g – 4 lb 8 oz
Date: 2017 – 2019
No. 197.2019.1
Technique: 6,825 3-cm – 1.18 n squares of fabric, assembled in three dimensions then quilted together onto a canvas base with a silk core
Description: For The skin of the world, the avenues explored in the Moments and Running water series break free, with diagonal lines softening up. The three-dimensional effect becomes a method. Combined with the chromatic choices, it confers true sensuality to the work as a whole.
A new texture is achieved, somewhere between fur, feather and scales.
Encapsulating previous explorations in a nutshell, the relief composition has a mesmerising effect on the onlooker.
Title: Hiver 1
Winter 1
Seasons series and Thaw series
Format: 174 x 268 cm – 5 ft 9 in x 8 ft 10 in
Weight: 2.600 g – 5 lb 12 oz
Date: 2018 – 2022
No. 224.2022.8
Technique: 23 blocks of 459 textiles squares hand-assembled to produce a relief effect – three dimensions with a double dotted line – and two blocks both 459 squares assembled with a smooth finish. The surface is quilted on canvas through a polyester core chosen for its extreme whiteness.
4,675 -4 cm- 1.57 in squares
Description: In a chromatic range first used in Interferences in 2018, the lines of force resemble those of the Magma series: they evoke the trickle of a liquid cooling, as if halted by the temperature or the wind.
In the top-left corner, the contrasting texture of the two 17 x 27 square blocks assembled in classic fashion, contrive to produce a watermark effect, like a throwback to another, smoother cap of ice.
The broken lines of the quilting follow the diagonals through individual square or pairs of juxtaposed squares.
Series:
Dawn
Seasons
Thaw
Magma
Running Water
Semagram
Moments
Five squares
Time and Space
Circles
Alhambra
Other works 2009 – 2013
Collaborative projects
