Brigitte AMARGER
Chairs textiles, 2021
Discarded samples of recovered fabric sampling research tests, engraved X-Rays, cardboard. 95 x 245cm modular installation
This series questions the second life of materials, textile and x_ray, giving them a new breath of life. From discarded sampling test made for the manufacture of a fabic, which i recovered, challenged by the contrast between front and back, i studied its anatomy. As in a reseach laboratory, there have been successive experiments, manipulations, discoveries, transformations, inventions and creation of new design prototype, in pattern and color. The X-ray has been engraved with these dermatological traces in transparency revealing the layers , both the surface and beyond
Brigitte AMARGER
H360 autopsy#1, 2021
Recovered textiles and discarded laser engraved x-rays. 117 X 160 X 3 modular installation
My work questions the analogy of gestures and terms, medical and textile, of the discoveries generated by the artistic creative process as well as by that of the operating mode of dissection. It questions textiles and bodies, fragile and degradable materials, letting our imagination navigate from the envelope to the flesh, crossing the borders that divide surface and depth. Recovered samples, the basis of yarns and colors researches for the creation of a fabric, fascinated me by the difference in texture between their tightly woven and smooth front, and their back made up of layers of sinuous, elongated fibers, evoking the muscles of an ‘’écorché’’. Histology studies biological tissues in samples. The term ''crevé'', cut in a garment to reveal the undershirt is the same as the one used for the incision of the thorax, during an autopsy. Its cutting in ''Y'', allows the skin to be turned and seems to form jacket lapels. On an xray ``corpse'', traces of the engraved fabric appear, creating an unexpected medical imagery: memory in the skin or fabric as a second skin? Four "specimens" for "collection banks" are samples for research purposes. A piece of fabric partially reveals the research work related to its design, listed "H 360" as an abbreviation, providing a clue of identity. Medical and textile gestures and words analogies, artistic creative process and operating mode of dissection, fragility and degradable materials. Let our imagination navigate from the envelope to the flesh, crossing the borders from surface and depth.
Brigitte AMARGER
H 154 : L’étoffe de la peau, 2021
Trash X Rays and textiles samples; threads 215x 160 x 120cm modular installation
This installation of two assembled bodies questions us about the fabric of the skin. She lets our imagination navigate from the envelope to the bare flesh, crossing the layers, from the depth to the surface. Between dermis, epidermis, hypodermis and muscle, anatomically closely linked elements, and this additional layer that is the textile garment that covers us, what are the boundaries? The standing body silhouette is made with x-rays engraved with the textile pattern of the fabric which, through its layers of sinuous and elongated fibers, evokes myology. Like an envelope that falls, the fabric is detached from it, like a second skin moult spreads out on the ground. This work was made from the remnants/scraps of samples of the fabric used to make de ‘’H360: Autopsy‘’which were stitched together. These were listed by the abbreviation "H 154", which gave its identity to the body presented in this modular installation
