3rd European textile and Fibre Art Festival - Catalogue

SARAH PERRET
France / Francija
Born 1958
Le Village
26400 Montclar S/Gervanne, France
Education
1978 Ecole nationale d’Arts
Décoratifs, Aubusson,
France
Selected exhibitions
2005 KARPIT 2 –
Métamorphoses,
Budapest, Hungary
2004 Solo exhibition, Fondation
Bullukian, Lyons, France
Textil’Art – Tourette
s/Loup, France
2002 Solo exhibition “Le Polaris”,
Corbas, France
Solo exhibition “MAPRA”,
Lyons, France
Since 1980, I have been making tapestries in my
own individual workshop. I create my tapestries,
from the drawing of the sketches to
their realisations „in wool“, always as unique
pieces. Working as a self-taught tapestry
artist, these nine years were dedicated to
the mere exploitation of the surface.
I thus wove nine tapestries of different dimensions,
and closed this cycle of work with a
triptych finished in June 1997.
At the beginning of my work on tapestries, and
influenced by a training period at the Ecole
Nationale d’Arts Décoratifs in Aubusson, I
was initiated to the techniques by the way
of transcriptions of well-known paintings
(Goya, Gauguin, le Douanier Rousseau, and
a painting by a friend painter, Alain Golay,
whose daring composition of a face had
struck me ).
After that period, my tapestries were the fruit
of photographic research. Which is
explained both by my interest in cinema and
my different trips to foreign countries.
Relying on haphazard cutting and reassembling,
I shaped new landscapes, and human
forms differently combined – a kaleidoscope
of bodies and faces.
From then on, my theme of research will be
unique and my way of exploiting it multiple,
due to my fascination for the human body.
Since the chosen material matters from the
very idea of the sketches, I wanted to use
the traces left by the body on different malleable
materials. After fruitless trials with
sand, I decided to use a pool of mud in
which I printed different positions of my
body. After being photographed at various
stages in the process of drying and crackling,
these gave the triptych „Géographie
humaine“ („Human Geography“) as a conclusion
to the combination photo/tapestry.
After my previous interest in the outward
shape, I am now trying to find the interior
beauty.
Between 1998 and 2004, I have made a series
of seven tapestries inspired by the work of
André Vesale and, more generally, by the
difficult beginnings of anatomy, between
Art and Science. I am very interested in
anatomic wax representations.
Nature goes in Resistance.
There is no opposition between human and
nature but just take conscious aware the
impact between them.
Just a disquiet, face of our antic relations and
their progressive destruction.
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