foil stamping on recycled fabric from post-consumer recycling of PET bottles, organic cotton, pins | fabric sponsored by Fiscatech | 56 x 74 cm | 2022
R E-CONNAÎTRE
Re-connaître combines art and literature and is born from the composition of a multilingual text of 8 quotes taken from 4 different books; a text that has its capital element in memory and that tries to define it, since the beginning, the origin, the cause have its roots in memory. A text capable of re-aligning distant worlds on the same page, of making different languages dialogue, sometimes belonging to different language families and, in the case of Sanskrit, typical of antiquity. The breaking down of distances and the game of translation that are promoted in the text also find fertile ground in the choice of fabrics used. For the realization of the artwork, a non-woven fabric produced using recycled polyester fibres (from post-consumer recycling of PET bottles) and a textile obtained from recycled plastics, which gives life to a performing, versatile and sustainable fabric, were chosen. The pages of the 4 books used were printed and sewn together to form a carpet, which hosts, on one side, the quotations that make up the text on memory joined by organic cotton threads to the bibliographic indications, fixed on the opposite side. The choice of fabrics in shades of black and gray, associated with the hot stamping of the pages, creates a graphite effect, combining the indelibility of the print with the delicacy and precariousness of a pencil line.
