B.A. Collection: Screen
I questioned myself about the different representations of a picture, from reality to digital, from our memory to its digitization. I wanted to show the ambiguity of our "analog" experiment and the veracity of its backup.
My work was made of three different textile collections creating a journey inside the screen:
• “Abyss of Pixels” : collection inspired by my childhood experiments with game consoles
• "Next stop: Kodaira": collection inspired by my pilgrimage during a trip to Tokyo, its suburb and how this I experienced it digitally thanks to Internet.
• “Glitch : a new reality” : collection inspired by the transformation of my two collections thanks to "glitch", an electronic/digital failure.
Next stop: Kodaira
This second collection is inspired by two experiences: one "real" - a trip to Japan in 2011- and one "virtual" - my daily surf on amateur photography sharing website Flickr.
With this step, I wanted to recover the memory of the places I visited in Kodaire, a Tokyo suburb cityn and especially a walking into the bamboo forests around the train station. Then I wanted to confront my faulty personal memory with the Internet collective one.
1/ Sensorial box, a first step into my memory
I started by creating a "memorial box", a small scale installation made of painting evoking my trip to Kodaira's forests. I wanted to represent the ambiant atmosphere of this experience where darkness falls quickly.
Small scale installation,
Foam cardboard, plexiglas, painting.
During my trip, I collected sound into magnetic bands around the train station of Kodaira and especially into the forests. I wanted to keep the sensorial memory of this moment into a physical object. I then transposed those sounds of nature into silk-screen images. To do so, I drawn forest-like compositions, using the sound/magnetic bands, making the sound a physical image. By vectoring those patterns, I used devore silk-screen technique to to obtain translucent patterns, making me able to play with them on the light
Devore silk-screen Collection
Dyed viscose silk.
2/ Weaving: drawing my memory
Progressively during my weaving practice, I was able to feel some sensorial memories. Thanks to stitching pattern, I drawn blurred pattern, representing a first step into recovering the ambiant universe of the forest, like a blurred picture.
After recovering a part of my blurred memory, I settled up my loom to create stripes into the warp in the aim to have a precise image, where stripes of different width generate a visual depth. A more visible memory appeared.
Extract from a weaved collection
Double warp, stripes warp drawing, polyester & linen.
3/ Double-weave: Confronting analog and digital experiences
After a searching for my memory and getting close to my experiments, I wanted to confront my memory to the Internet collective one. To do so, I settled up the loom to instal the warp with stripes, representing my memory and I weaved photographies found on Flickr, transferred/printed into striped fabric. By doubling the warp, I was able to weave two different fabric at the same time, and include photographies into the warp & weft.
Extract from a weaved collection
Double warp, stripes warp drawing, polyester & linen.