Photography
Tina Merandon
In Tisser sa toile (Weaving Her Web), Tina Merandon approaches the mother-daughter relationship from a highly original perspective. Taking advantage of an artist residency in Brittany, she used the idea of woven fabric (sheets and tablecloths, textile objects often associated with domestic rituals that connected women to one another) to have mothers and daughters pose together behind a veil.
The shadows cast are reminiscent of Plato’s cave. There is thus an archaic dimension to this mother-daughter relationship, reinforced by this shadow theater, which also evokes Plato’s cave.
The shadows cast are reminiscent of Plato’s cave. There is thus an archaic dimension to this mother-daughter relationship, reinforced by this shadow theater, which also evokes cave paintings
at the limits of representation.
This is why, to this idea of an archaic image, the artist wanted to associate images of female statues found in the calvaries of Finistère dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, an opulent period thanks to the linen trade. Treated in the book with a gold print on black paper, opening and closing the work, they also evoke the origins of Western representation in Byzantine icons.
Tisser sa toile, 22 x 29 cm, 68 pages printed on two types of paper, approximately 50 color reproductions, hardcover binding
Texts: Sylvie Hugues, Tania Levy, Pierre Martin
Graphic design: L’Atelier d’édition
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