Transition This project was an opportunity for me to combine and interrogate immensely big and immensely small patterns in a credit card format. By mixing up the scales, I managed to get away from the figurative elements and ended up with abstract subjects that promote language across scales. The drawing series started for the exhibition… Continue reading Transition
Author: laurane.legoff
Volume and materials
Volume and materials The origin of this project is a raincoat from the nineties. I dismantled it, arranged the pieces in a different order, and started to question the pattern as the matrice of something reproducible. Same pattern, three materials Due to the characteristics of each material, I assembled the pieces in different ways, trying… Continue reading Volume and materials
Strata
Strata The workshop project was driven by Lorenzo Nanni, a textile artist and embroiderer. Stratas are the sign of time passing, an element growing, a living material mark. This project was textile research around one type of matter structuration: strata. How do transcribe strata without a repeated pattern, but with errors and imperfections? I used… Continue reading Strata
Bacteria Manifestation
Bacteria Manifestation 4cm x 4cm, February 2016, Golden organza, batting and beads, screenshots details of photographs series of bacterial cultures. Beaded embroidery inspired by bacterial cultures observations. I tried to find a way to transcribe complex and changing microscopic textures and colours. The small squares’ formats permit the creation of movable ornaments on any support.
Trametes Versicolor
Trametes Versicolor Drawing, 420 x 297mm – February to June 2016 – Faber Castell Polychromos coloured pencil, Posca and BIC pen on paper. By observing a tiny sample of a Trametes Versicolor collected in Vosges woods during a workshop, and spending hours drawing it, I apprehended its texture. An inherent quality that defines an abstract… Continue reading Trametes Versicolor
Fragile – Le Séchoir
Fragile – Le Séchoir 155cm x 75 cm, June 2015, Polyester muslin and cotton engraving printings, tulle underskirt. «No(w) Future» workshop’s project.Exhibition at le Séchoir, Mulhouse (France), from June 5th 2015 to July 14th 2015. The exhibition emerged from an intense week in November 2014, when the students went into immersion in the natural reserve… Continue reading Fragile – Le Séchoir
Mantis
Mantis 35cm x 30cm, April 2015, Faber Castel Polychromos coloured pencil, Posca and BIC pen on polyester muslin. Original drawing that combines different other-than-human subjects from photographic supports. This visual research combines diverse organisms in one hybrid whole. It was also technical research on colours and shadings in a transparent and fragile fabric. The paradox… Continue reading Mantis