"baleine"
"wire drawing", playing with its own shadow on the wall
Wire, silver wire
bobbin lace technique, wall mounted
L 78 cm x H 52 cm
€ 540,00
During
the time when she was a student at the Ecole des Arts Dėcoratifs in
Paris she specialised at film animation. She concentrated on the
research into grid pattern and interlacing. In the hope that these
techniques might be useful in her work she did apprenticeships
with traditional lace-makers in Portugal. She returned enriched by this exchange
of ideas with the artisans: in the knowledge that they had initiated
her into the world of a large and transient cultural heritage, a
world which is in danger of disappearing if it doesn’t have new
spirit breathed into it.
In
this way our young artist was searching for new ways to use the old
techniques of ‘lace-making’ and has arrived with her series ‘mur
mur’ (which can be translated in two ways, only one of them being
‘murmur’) at convincing us of these truly living wall creatures.
The
designs are mostly wrought as if they were lace but in this case they
are made from wire, and show small scenes, climbing and entwining
subjects, made to measure, directly onto the wall, either decorating
or figuratively....just as it pleases the person looking at them.
Only
fixed in a few places these creations result in a never ending
dialogue between the wire ends and the light. The shadow play
reflects back and gives echoes, the moving light changes the way it
looks continuously. It would be hard to find a wall decoration more
lively and stimulating.
