Titre : Aube 281
Dawn 281
Dawn series
Format : 129 x 211 cm – 4 ft 3 in x 6 ft 11 in
Poids : 1430 g – 3 lb 2,4 oz
Date : 2018 – 2024
n° 281.2024.4
Technique: Textile squares hand-assembled on the wrong side for a 3-dimensional effect, adding blurry depth.
Three layers quilted on canvas through a silk core
Ten blocks of 27 x 17 3 cm – 1,18 inch squares
4,590 squares
Description: Aube 281 reveals a succession of daybreaks and folds in time.
An immense palette of colours, depicting shimmering shifts of light, drawn from a catalogue of textiles that have been patiently collected, collated and coordinated.
These myriad textiles forge countless connections between their shades and sheens as well as their weave, their weight, their finesse, their drape: their quality.
Vibrations ranging from the daintiest to the deepest resonate as a singular textile score.
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 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: Magma 2
Magma series
Format: 132 x 204 cm – 4ft 4in x 6ft 8in
Weight: 1.700 g – 3 lb 12 oz
Date: 2020-2023
No. 271.2023.19
Technique: Hand-stitched: twelve blocks with a relief effect and thirteen smooth blocks
The broken lines of quilting cut diagonally through individual squares or pairs of juxtaposed squares.
4,675 textile squares 3-cm wide
Description: Magma 2 conjures up cooling lava that no longer flows freely, in the grip of the contradictory physical forces of gravity and falling temperature.
In the same chromatic range as Magma 1 – inspired by tablets adorned with calligraphy in a Korean temple – Magma 2 has been composed in a smaller format.
The thirteen smooth blocks alternating with twelve blocks assembled with a relief effect produce a vibratory sensation and depth.
Title: Aube 275 et Aube 276
Dawn 275 and 276
Dawn series
Format: Two panels, each 64 x 41 cm – 2ft 1in x 1ft 4in
Weight: Two panels, each 0.160 g – 6 oz
Date: 2018 – 2023
Nos. 276.2023.24 and 277.2023.25
Technique: Textiles assembled by hand on the reverse side to produce a blurry relief effect.
Three layers quilted on canvas with a silk core.
459 3-cm squares, twice
Description: Initiated during a research project proposed in 2018, the Dawn series explores the imperceptible shifts in colour at daybreak. Patiently collected fabrics in varying shades, materials and weaves recreate the first glimmers of light as night fades away.
Breaking free for the first time from the lines of force that lent structure to the composition of her works, Sabine Cibert now distributes textures and weaves across an entire, unchanging visual field, according to the magnitude of change in the range of colours.
The use of tiny quantities of rare fabrics adds to the singularity of each work in the Series.
Series:
Dawn
Seasons
Thaw
Magma
Running Water
Semagram
Moments
Five squares
Time and Space
Circles
Alhambra
Other works 2009 – 2013
Collaborative projects
