Twisted signs of life
“Cordée” is a series of contextual experiments in which I employ rope-braiding techniques using surplus materials from the textile industry. For me, rope, weaving, and netting are spaces imbued with memory and color, which I intertwine and connect to fragments I find in the places where I set up. The movement inherent in my practice evokes a tension between studio and exhibition spaces, in relation to the works of Andy Goldsworthy, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Christo.
Impermanent and itinerant, the “Cordées” take root in one environment and then another, always in a different way. A play of balance—both physical and pictorial—emerges among the weaving, the net, the fragments, and the site itself. The “Cordées” deploy forces of an uncertain and ephemeral nature: subordinate to the environment in which I install them, they bend and relinquish control over the form they will take. The experience is defined by the present moment, by the story I am able to reconstruct and “re-record*” from what is already there.
