Christine Mathieu

Éditions Atelier l’épicerie

Figures Primitives

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2016

Format 21 x 29,7 cm

108 pages

Présentation

“To make the first series of Figures primitives in 2011, I used a polystyrene head, found in the street, and covered it with plaster strips. I then dressed this simple and essential shape with the various materials available in my workshop: beads, pins, threads, offcuts, wool, ribbons, dried flowers, etc. This act of creation was affirmed in the variation and I performed more than 80 figures.

Between puppets and human anatomies, photography and art brut, these figures are recursive sketches of a ritual of disembodiment. The symbolic and essential quest for our part of silence. Each new experiment around this concept of a primitive figure embodies my obsession with trying to signify a strong, almost totemic presence by minimizing the means and signs. ”

-Christine Mathieu