Video: Industrial lace-making: curious works by an artist from Belgium
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The artist Elodie Antoine uses in her work all kinds of threads, fabric cuts, wallpaper and even carpets. The thing is that Elodie creates original installations from all this textile variety, imitating a wide variety of objects. One of her most recent projects is a series of works on the industrial theme of lace.
Elodie's task is complete mastery of space. She tries to make the most of the potential of the materials - this is felt in the presentation of the work. Creating her own artistic world, the artist seeks to give form to the formless, and even present it as if the object lives its own isolated life, developing and progressing. Often, the artist places her objects in such a way that it seems as if they have always been there.
The artist herself calls her works “flexible sculptures”. Indeed, lace and threads are quite malleable. With a certain skill, talent and dexterity, you can create amazing non-fixed shapes. It is noteworthy that while doing lace-making, the artist chose such a “non-feminine” theme. It depicts bridges, various industrial sites, stations and industrial buildings.
Antoine's colleague, American artist Melissa Zexter decided to combine such an old women's craft as needlework with modern photography. Not afraid of misunderstanding on the part of connoisseurs of the first and fans of the second, Zexter set to work on the project. In her opinion, texturing the surface of an image creates new dimensions and offers different meanings for interpreting the image.
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