Moments series: Instants 3 – exhibition
Moments series: Instants 3
Moments series: Instants 3 – final
Moments series: Instants 3 – detail
Title: Instants 3
Moments 3
Moments series
Format: 186 cm x 210 cm – 6ft 1in x 6ft 11in
Weight: 2.025 g – 4 lb 7 oz
Date: 2011 – 2016
No. 188.2016.5
Technique: For each grid pattern, 7,644 textile squares 3-cm wide have been hand-assembled and quilted on a canvas base with a silk core
Description: Starting with a collage of photographs by Karl Hermann Haupt – a snowscape repeated in 24 minuscule rectangles (2.8 x 5.5 cm) – the idea of repeating the motif and its mirror has been preserved.
The textile fragments’ colours and weaves, the way the block appears to change direction, causes the light to vibrate. As the third grid pattern in the Moments series, this composition comprises greater numbers of blocks elaborated in light of those on either side. Contemplating each of these Instants in turn underscores their increasingly complex architecture, more delicate motion and greater scenic depth, induced by the contrasting modulation of the tiny squares.
Likewise, each of these Instants acts as a necessary milestone, forcing a moment of contemplation.
Exhibition l’Aqueduc Dardilly 2016, France
