site-specific projects
A work can begin with a place.
Some works exist first and foremost in their own right. Others begin with a place.
Its dimensions, its use, some of its materials, and sometimes its history or the territory to which it belongs can become part of the conditions from which I work.
I can thus conceive a textile work or installation for a particular space, in dialogue with the person who inhabits, collects, designs or hosts it.
The aim is not to adapt an existing work to an interior, but to allow the specific conditions of a place to participate in the emergence of a new form.
A PLACE AS A STARTING POINT
I do not always begin with a predetermined format.
When a work is intended for a specific place, certain very concrete characteristics become important: the available space, hanging possibilities, the distance from which the work will be viewed, or whether it can extend beyond the wall.
These constraints do not constitute an architectural programme for me. They simply become part of the conditions I work with.
A work may then remain contained within a frame, unfold across several elements, extend lengthwise, or partially leave the plane of the wall.
The place does not determine the work. It contributes to the conditions in which the work can emerge.
forms
The same inquiry can take very different forms.
I work at the scale of both wall-based works and installations that engage directly with architecture.
Depending on the place and the project, this may take the form of a single work, a diptych or polyptych, a work extending along the length of a wall, a suspended composition, or an installation whose fibres continue into space.
In each of these forms, textile retains its material qualities: its flexibility, weight and tension, its ability to filter light or alter our perception of a boundary.
The aim is not to reproduce the same form at different scales. Each commission instead opens up a new inquiry within the language of the Cartographies de l’Invisible. Each project is an opportunity to find the right form for a particular situation.
WALL-BASED WORKS · POLYPTYCHS · INSTALLATIONS · SUSPENDED WORKS · SPATIAL DIVIDERS
MATERIALS & TERRITORY
A structure of relations.
I work with natural fibres, botanical dyes, soils and woods whose origins and transformations I seek to understand as precisely as possible.
In some projects, the place can shape not only the dimensions of the work but also its material composition: a local wood species, a dye plant, a soil, a locally produced fibre or even a particular source of water may enter into the making process.
I am not seeking to illustrate a territory or artificially gather its signs. These materials become real components of the work, with their own properties, limits and transformations.
The context is then no longer simply around the work.
Part of it participates in the work’s making.
DEVELOPING A COMMISSION
Each project begins with a conversation.
I work from the information required to create the work: photographs of the site, available dimensions, hanging constraints and, when the project requires it, plans or documents provided by the client or the professionals involved.
From these elements, I develop an artistic proposal addressing the form, dimensions, materials and the way the work will take its place within the site.
01 — DISCUSS
UNDERSTAND THE PROJECT,
the place for which the work is intended, and the client’s expectations.
02 — ASSESS
RECEIVE THE SPECIFICATIONS,
dimensions, photographs, hanging conditions and the technical information required to develop the work.
03 — PROPOSE
DEVELOP AN ARTISTIC PROPOSAL:
format, form, materials, colours and mode of installation. Drawings, visualisations or samples may accompany this stage.
04 — CREATE
SPINNING, DYEING, WEAVING, CONSTRUCTION AND ASSEMBLY
are carried out progressively in the studio.
When the project forms part of a broader architectural design, I work in dialogue with the architect or interior designer responsible for its technical and spatial dimensions.
The production timeframe and installation arrangements are defined for each project according to its scale and complexity.
A PLACE, AN IDEA
Let’s talk about what the work could become here.
Are you an architect, interior designer, collector, hotelier or cultural venue director looking to develop a work for a particular space?
You can send me a few photographs or plans, or simply tell me about the place and what you would like to bring into being there. A project can begin with very little.