“The Garden’s Voice” is an installation in 6 parts
or
variations on the title theme
by
French artist Karine
Jollet.
This
is also her first Swedish exhibition and we hope the first
of
many to come.
Karine Jollet is a soft-sculpture
artist using white fabrics
as her favorite medium.
“The Garden’s
Voice” is presented for the first time in this format
which was specifically conceived
for Fiberspace Gallery.
The title is taken from a long poem
by Haris Metaxa, “Possessed”
written in the context of the joint
garden poetry and sculpture exhibition
called “Bodies of Grace”.
The two artists, poet and sculptor, produced and
exhibited it
for the first time
in 2009 in a Parisian garden,
nature being one of the muses.
This installation includes the poem
itself,
depicted in 15 suspended handkerchiefs
in pearl embroidery (“Possessed”),
a suspended human figure capturing
the garden’s voice (“Medium”),
two suspended feet with roots (“Dance”),
a mini-installation of two
sculptures combined,
one of a tunic with lungs
embroidered on it
and the other of two feet firmly on
the ground
(“Embodiment” and “Marcher
– Walker”),
a reclining woman connected to a
flower
(“Rêve de Fleur – Flower Power”)
and a sculpture of a suspended
human ear (“Hearing”).
All installation
sculptures are different characters of the same play,
they exist in this invisible
dimension
where cosmic vibrations are
transmitted and received
and where nature and human
beings
are perceived and represented as
equal entities
sharing the same Cosmic
Matrix.
Each group of sculptures and the
whole installation
as such bring to light a different
aspect of this harmonic experience
of being a part of the same
Talking, Vibrating Cosmos.
Can you feel it ?
POSSESSED
The magic garden
is a huge lung
beating to the rhythm of the
universe,
quietly counting each second
leaving to my care
its transformation
in experience and expression.
Plants, birds, sun and
silence,
all the ingredients are there
for the transformation
to take place.
So now I open my mouth
but it is the garden’s voice
that speaks
through me.
(c)Original poem in English by Haris Metaxa
FIND OUT MORE
Karine Jollet,
The Garden's Voice, October 10 to 29, 2016
Fiberspace Gallery
Katarina Bangata 40
116 39 Stockholm
Katarina Bangata 40
116 39 Stockholm
Sweden
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