The duty of an artist one may argue is to hold a mirror up to life and reflect back the truth as one interprets it. To record every day life in a way which is meaningful to him or her for the sake of presenting it to the world.
For this week's Featured Artist, let's take a look into an installation by a Brussels based artist, Elodie Antoine, who records nature with fabric and created a unique installation high up in trees.
One may be familiar with certain types of tree fungi such as turkey tails or oyster mushrooms. One may never have seen a soft fabric representation!
Here's some of the installation process:
Not only has she climbed to fascinating heights to install these fun fungi, but here she is embellishing certain livingroom pieces:
"...she makes use of flexible materials such as thread, fabric, wallpaper, wool carpet and felt. She also works with everyday items : chairs, frames, sinks but always taking them beyond their limits. Elodie Antoine strives for taking complete possession of the space, placing objects in a way which seems as if they self-generated there. She uses textiles in order to create a universe made of organic and vegetable matter where all the items, with their peculiar shapes, seem to be in a state of progression. She explores the potential of materials by allowing them to multiply and outgrow in a way that is natural to them, but which she nonetheless cleverly controls."[1]
Sources:
- http://www.elodieantoine.aeroplastics.net/biography.php
Photos credited and belong to http://www.elodieantoine.be
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