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 scattered matter
Between North and South
Opening a track in a maze of directions
The time of ritual gestures of struggle and accompaniment
Inside this soft thickness
Horizontality and longitudinal tensioning of the weaving
An infinite weave that spans past, present and future
Time for a haptic encounter, an apprehension, a digestion of ductile materials
Who become Beings
From their roots come natural, living, deep filiations
Here on the horizon, read by the eye, is a zone of high intensity where our usual optics can be altered
Opaque fibrous mirror
I am developing a ritual practice around materials with which I begin a quest for gestures. I explore the structure of weaving in relation to sculpture through natural and man-made materials.
This correspondence takes the form of mutual breathing between body movements and the materials encountered, used as tools.
In constructing my ritual, I shape my plural identity by questioning the know-how and epistemic resources at my disposal to create new imaginaries, new vestiges of a time that does not exist.
I seek to give substance to these fertile projects, an anchor, roots.
From fibre to stoneware, from mental projection to material object, textiles become subjects.
Porous, it evokes identities that don’t merge, but articulate themselves.
Between constituted reality and fictional world.
Tools
Reality of the hand that weaves
Relationship between space and scattered matter
Between North and South
Opening a track in a maze of directions
The time of ritual gestures of struggle and accompaniment
Inside this soft thickness
Horizontality and longitudinal tensioning of the weaving
An infinite weave that spans past, present and future
Time for a haptic encounter, an apprehension, a digestion of ductile materials
Who become Beings
From their roots come natural, living, deep filiations
Here on the horizon, read by the eye, is a zone of high intensity where our usual optics can be altered
Opaque fibrous mirror
I am developing a ritual practice around materials with which I begin a quest for gestures. I explore the structure of weaving in relation to sculpture through natural and man-made materials.
This correspondence takes the form of mutual breathing between body movements and the materials encountered, used as tools.
In constructing my ritual, I shape my plural identity by questioning the know-how and epistemic resources at my disposal to create new imaginaries, new vestiges of a time that does not exist.
I seek to give substance to these fertile projects, an anchor, roots.
From fibre to stoneware, from mental projection to material object, textiles become subjects.
Porous, it evokes identities that don’t merge, but articulate themselves.
Between constituted reality and fictional world.
Tools
