METAMORPHOSES expo 2010

METAMORPHOSES – 2010

Metamorphosis is a Greek word that means ‘change in form’. Besides comprising rational thinking, it indicates a direct spiritual empirical knowledge, as well as an intuitive knowledge.

With the aim of exploring the potential of associations, building a hybrid by taking into account a basic postulate (body/form/clothing) and the constituent elements in themselves (2D + 3D, combination of textures…), along with the history/context and specificities of these two media, I continue to study and experiment with the specific approach encompassed by modification. Using intuition, what would the act of transformation cause?

Materials science and clothing manufacturing techniques make it possible to push the analysis of matter and form ever further, to the point of actually managing to reconstitute the structure in its tiniest details by means of increasingly elaborated combinations. All that considered, it is less in the ‘ perfection’ of the components of matter than in its margin of ‘imperfection’ (handmade aspect) that my interest resides.

The conjunction of elements, far from answering the simple mathematical logic of addition, involves a phenomenon through which the textures modulate to create a new form. In other words, the capacity contained in matter to undergo transformation and to shift from one state to another.

It is this interest in matter (physical and pictorial), its manufacturing stage and the way in which one can develop a new use for it by working out methods that belong to it, on which I want to concentrate, turning to the very process of creation, to the transformation and development of an already existing object in order to highlight it.

Deconstructions, re-constructions, pattern-cuttings, seams, appropriations, unusual combinations, reconstitutions, and pretences, are all approaches that allow seemingly familiar materials to be reconsidered and revisited through a transformation.

My project is one of physical analysis and of slow and meticulous labour, a research that begins with a functional object – which will eventually lose its function while acquiring, via various associations, a symbolic value – through the careful dissection of its construction, stage by stage.

So I tear down, destroy, and then rebuild a structure or element from which everything started. The form tries to follow what I want, through this aspect of intuitive knowledge and the imposed process of manual work.

Our body is the first aspect of knowledge, through experience and perception it creates a chart of reality that enables us to understand the surrounding world, the material as much as the immaterial.

In a perceptive play reflecting the relation to matter, the transformation stage, the relation of the object to the body and space, using matter and the developmental process, even in a base form, instated for better revealing this form, I return the object (in its transformation) to its sculptural potentialities and to our own sense of knowledge and our associations.

The freedom of change.

October 2010

MODO BRUSSELS

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