CHRISTINE MATHIEU “Spirit Presences”
Christine Mathieu made between 2011 and 2013 a large set of figures made of pieces of fabric, associated with ordinary materials such as straw, beads buttons....
30 giugno - 2 settembre 2018Passato
Christine Mathieu
Neither doll nor human figure, these masks evoke
a world of silence and mystery.
During her first visit to the Manufacture, Christine Mathieu
was impressed by the diversity of forms and richness of
colors emanating from the coils of wires still present in the
reserves. They chose to take them. They became a material.
of choice to parry a silent army. These simulacres
of appearance, half-men, half-ghosts, evoke forms
of a strange ritual, in memory of a disappeared human activity.