Maria E André
Maria E André (Bolivia, 1996) is a Franco-Bolivian textile artist and sculptor. She lives and works in Brussels.
Reality of the hand that weaves
Relationship between space and sparse matter East and West, North and South
Opening of a track in amaze of direction
The time for ritual gestures of struggle and accompaniment
Inside this soft thickness
Horizontality and longitudinal tensioning of the weaving
This infinite weft that range the past, the present and the future
Time for ahaptic encounter, an apprehension, a digestion of ductile materials
Who become Beings
From their rootsare created natural, depth living filiations
Here is on the horizon, read by the eye, a zone of high intensity where the breach of our usual optics
can occur
Opaque fibrous mirror
I develop a ritual practice around materials with which I begin a work of quest for gestures.
I explore the weaving structure in relation with sculpture. This correspondence takes the form of a mutual breathing between the movements of the body and the materials.
Between the balance of power and the delicacy of a caress : the fiber, the sand, the metal are thought as an extension of the hand. Both as materials and as tools. In the construction of this ritual, my modus operandi, I make tools and structures to accomodate and control theses materials with tiny and unlimited manipulations.
With these fertile projects, I seek to give them substance, an anchor and roots.
By its immediate powers of extension and continuity, the weaving structure allows the passage from large to small, in an ambiguity of scale, to say of itself only what happens inside.
Between flesh and soul. Between constituted reality and fictitious world.
We are invited to accept the dream, as we have accepted the universe.
Tools
Reality of the hand that weaves
Relationship between space and sparse matter East and West, North and South
Opening of a track in amaze of direction
The time for ritual gestures of struggle and accompaniment
Inside this soft thickness
Horizontality and longitudinal tensioning of the weaving
This infinite weft that range the past, the present and the future
Time for ahaptic encounter, an apprehension, a digestion of ductile materials
Who become Beings
From their rootsare created natural, depth living filiations
Here is on the horizon, read by the eye, a zone of high intensity where the breach of our usual optics
can occur
Opaque fibrous mirror
I develop a ritual practice around materials with which I begin a work of quest for gestures.
I explore the weaving structure in relation with sculpture. This correspondence takes the form of a mutual breathing between the movements of the body and the materials.
Between the balance of power and the delicacy of a caress : the fiber, the sand, the metal are thought as an extension of the hand. Both as materials and as tools. In the construction of this ritual, my modus operandi, I make tools and structures to accomodate and control theses materials with tiny and unlimited manipulations.
With these fertile projects, I seek to give them substance, an anchor and roots.
By its immediate powers of extension and continuity, the weaving structure allows the passage from large to small, in an ambiguity of scale, to say of itself only what happens inside.
Between flesh and soul. Between constituted reality and fictitious world.
We are invited to accept the dream, as we have accepted the universe.
Tools
