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Ariana’s spools
ensemble 1
In my last commissioned work for Corderie Vallois Museum, I was praised for having successfully completed my mission of highlighting an existing photo archive, by using the in-situ 19th century industrial machines that have a patrimonial and historical value. Adapting and using different mediums allowed me to work inter alia with cyanotype on cotton treads in order to unfold one more time a human story, that served as a universal symbol of the fleeting nature of human condition.
Cotton spools, that once served as working tools, were used as my surface material for my photo process. I’ve highlighted the unrolling of a human story by singling out individual portraits from a collective photo, in order to recreate a presence that has disappeared several generations ago.
Installation composed of 23 portraits on cotton thread, presented on wooden spools (h 42 cm/ diam.20 cm)
Support: cotton thread on walnut spools
Technique: transfer of photographic image on circular cotton support,
manual realization by cyanotype
ensemble 2
Instalassion composed of knitted textile and video Ghem
Textile object:
Handmade cotton knit, made in collaboration with Mrs. Petrov Petronela ( my mother) + manual printing by cyanotype highlighting the importance of manuel hand in the industrial revolution
Dimension : 2.20 m/60 cm
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video Ghem
Time: 1’54 ’’ / 2021
The video was published online during the exhibition La Ronde, by Roeun Metropole Normandie until 22nd of September
Series of 23 portraits on cotton thread
Support: small spools, with thin threads
Technique: cyanotype
Rope I
I’ve also created a video that documents the disappearance of the images of former female workers of the factory imprinted on cotton spools. The images disappeared at the hand of current museum employees that were invited to produce a unique thread by mechanically unfolding the spools and thus erasing one more time the human traces imprinted on the spools, but at the same time creating a connection with previous generations. This resulted in a stripped thread that carries with it a human stamp that reflects on our ephemeral presence of our singular but also our linear collective life
Time: 14’53’’
edition of 2 ropes / 2 videos
Crope produced on manually at Museum Corderie Vallois
Dimensions: 6 m
Rope technique steps:
Phase 1: creating portraits of factory workers through the process of image transfer specific to the nineteenth century, cyanotype, on the support of the spools of the Vallois factory
Phase 2: installation of spools on the machine according to the weaving standard of the 19th century industrial rope
Phase 3: the disappearance of old portraits and the creation of a new collective rope
I’ve also created two performances dedicated to the local audience of the Museum, that was encouraged to discover and participate during my intervention using ancient machines that produce cotton balls.
Series of 6 knithing cotton balls as a result of the erased portraits of the workers.
unique pieces
Images during the process of deleting the individual portrait from the stools, by forming a ball of thread an action made with the public at the Corderie Museum Vallois, July, 2021