Ombres à Porter // 2010
Ombres à Porter // 2010
Ombres à Porter // 2010
Ombres à Porter, 2010
In her recent project Ombres à porter Amélie Brisson-Darveau traces her friends’ shadows to make patterns for clothing that she taylors afterwards. From these fluid, abstract shapes she creates phantasmagorical, improbable, unusable closthes. Their rich materiality merges into the real while at the same time their usability has to remain on an imaginary plane. The spectator is compelled to engage with the work by projecting his or her fleeting shadow onto the clothes. They lie like islands in the dark floor. They lie as bodies sleeping. Quilted, the garments inspire comfort and the lighting system fixed on tripods subtly suggests the body.
Ombres à Porter, drawings for an animation // 2010
Ombres à Porter, drawings for an animation // 2010
Ombres à Porter, working model for the installation // 2010
From the artist's research
George Cruikshank: Peter Schlemihl (illustration for Adelbert von Chamisso's story)
Adolf Schroedter: Peter Schlemihl (illustration for Adelbert von Chamisso's story)
He grasped my hand, and knelt down behind me, and with wonderful dexterity I perceived him loosening my shadow from the ground from head to foot; – he lifted it up; – he rolled it together and folded it, and at last put it into his pocket.
Adelbert von Chamisso: Peter Schlemihl. Translated from German by Sir John Bowring, LL.D., &c., with plates by George Cruikshank, 1861 (3rd edition), p. 33.
Amélie Brisson-Darveau
* 1976 in Quebec, lebt und arbeitet in Montreal und Zürich
Born in Quebec in 1976, Amélie is working between Montreal and Zurich. She finished her MFA at Concordia University in the Fiber Art department. Before she started her MFA, Amélie completed a B.A. in Visual and Media Art at the Université du Québec à Montréal and received a second BA in Social Work from Université de Montréal. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions and events including Engramme Arts Centre’s exhibition in Switzerland, at Truck Contemporary Art in Calgary, La Biennale Internationale du Lin de Portneuf (Qc), Gladstone Hôtel in Toronto, the Maison de la culture Côte-des-neiges, Diagonale and Dare-Dare in Montreal. She has received grants from FQRSC and Canada Council for the Arts. Her work varies from video to installation and performance art. Her particular focus with respect to fibers addresses questions of identity, social environments, the occupation of space and movement.