Eau vive 4 – exhibition
Running Water series: Eau vive 4
Eau vive 4 – final
Eau vive 4 – detail
Title : Eau Vive 4
Running water 4
Running Water series
Format: 150 x 250 cm – Five panels each 147 cm x 46 cm
4ft 10in x 8ft 2,4in – Five panels each 4ft 10in x 1ft 6in
Weight: Five panels each 0.425 g – 15 oz
Date: 2019 – 2021
No. 211.2021.1 to 214.2021.5
Technique: hand-stitched, then hand-quilted as three layers, including one that’s back-to-front, and one silk core.
Five sets of 1,365 3-cm textile squares
Description: Created after Eau vive 3, Eau vive 4 comprises five panels, each works in their own right. They have been assembled “inside out” to create a honeycomb surface that catches the light, while also bringing novel relief to the textile, conferring a soft sensuality.
Each textile fragment seems to blend into the next, creating a blurry optical sensation, akin to Impressionism.
The overall composition slants ever steeper, suggesting a mountain, a torrent or the moraine of a glacier. The broken lines of quilting amplify the sensation of falling.
Exhibition
Paços dos Duques in Guimarães, Portugal, 2022.
