Title: La peau du monde 2
The Skin of the World 2
The Skin of the World series
Format: Five panels each 150 x 48 cm – 4ft 1in x 1ft7in
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 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
The skin of the World 1
The Skin of the World series
Format: 152 x 215 cm – 4ft 12in x 7ft 0.65in
Weight: 2.040 g – 4 lb 8 oz
Date: 2017 – 2019
No. 197.2019.1
Technique: 6,825 3-cm 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.
Series:
Thaw
Magma
Semagram
Moments
Running water
Skin of the World
Five squares
Time and Space
Circles
Alhambra
Other works 2009 – 2013
Collaborative projects
