Series
A Treasure in the Wardrobe
Year
2021-2022
Support
Old sheets
Technical
Mixed on sheets
stretched on a wooden frame
A Treasure in the Wardrobe
A Treasure in the Wardrobe, that's what came to my mind when I discovered these old sheets at the bottom of the family closet. Sheets belonging to my grandparents, preciously kept in this cupboard, like a treasure.
The decision to use this family and emotional heritage to transform them into supports for paintings was not easy for me.
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Manage to restore all these sheets represent of the intimate, to make works charged with emotion.
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What a pleasure for me to reclaim this heritage and share it with you, with tenfold emotion.
"An emotional heritage just waiting to be revealed."
Thick textures, mixes of materials, cotton, linen, hemp… embroidered initials, stigmata of past lives, holes, pieces of fabricmended, thick seams...
A whole material that makes these sheets perfect supports for my paintings.
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The paintings in this series are particularly dear to my heart. They are imbued with this strong emotional charge that binds me to them and that I seek to transcribe in my paintings.
They are part of my heritage, sheets that have shared the life of people who are dear to me, they have gone through the years to arrive today in my workshop, and find a second life, of materials, shapes and colors .
