La robe-ruche / The Hive-Dress

May 23 – June 28, 2008
Exhibition

About the Program

In Héloïse Audy and Julie Faubert's La robe-ruche / The Hive-Dress, spontaneous thoughts were written on thin stripes of paper—over a thousand sentence-thoughts from women working in Montreal's textile industries. These thoughts were sewn one after the other on an infinite ribbon, made from dyed scrap fabric coming from these same industries, pursuing the artists' ritual of transforming thought into vibrant material. The project gives tangible form to an invisible phenomenon: that of the thoughts that run freely in the mind while the body is restrained to performing repetitive actions. The vibrant material made of an amalgam of paper and fabric, of ephemeral thoughts and durable materials, is shaped into an immense conic structure that hangs from the ceiling into the gallery space. The visitor who enters this conic dress covered with hundreds of sentences is surrounded by an altogether comforting and unsettling microcosmos. This ambiguous space evokes both at the same time the effervescence of work and the feeling of quietness and security that one would feel under a gigantic mother's skirt.

Artist

Héloïse Audy, Julie Faubert

Identifier

2008.0523 LAR

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

grunt gallery (second location)
116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca