Michele Landel, American born - living in France
is showing in Baarle Nassau and in Leiden, so in both galleries.
By herself, talking
From the series For there she was
Michele Landel
France
this work can be seen in Baarle Nassau
Digital
photography, fabric, embroidery, collage, natural dye
Photography,
fabric, thread, paint, avocado pits
Michele is an American artist. Michele lives and works in Sèvres, France and out of her art studio in the Paris 9th arrondissement. She holds degrees in Fine Arts and Art History. Her work has been exhibited in France, Italy, Poland.
She creates intensely textured and airy collages using burned, quilted, and embroidered photographs and paper to explore the themes of exposure, absence, and memory. She manually manipulates digital photographs to highlight the way images hide and filter the truth. Then sews layers of paper together to create bandages and veils and to transform images into fragile maps.
The title of this series, For There She Was, comes from the last line of Virginia Woolf ‘s Mrs Dalloway and includes over a hundred embroidered, burned, dyed and collaged images. The series emerged from thinking about all the women who were speaking out about their pain and trauma and refusing to go away.
To summarise this moment, the
artist brewed natural dyes in her kitchen using organic materials and then dyed
small scraps of fabric (a cloth baby diaper, an antique tablecloth, a stained
tea towel…) to
represent the physicality of womanhood and gender roles. She matched the
fabrics with small paper dolls that are actually digitally edited photographs
from clothing catalogues to show the commodification and manipulation of women’s stories. To
deliberately erase the women, she burned holes in the photographs and
repeatedly stitched over their faces and bodies. Yet the women are still there.
Their presence is even stronger.
Both on show in Leiden
https://www.galeriezone.nl
https://www.highfiveart.nl
https://michelelandel.com
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