Fanny Allié

Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Artist statement

Through my textile and mixed media work I explore the questions of home, the sense of belonging and exclusion, passage, ephemeral and the disappearance of the body. My practice inspired and directed by remnants, refuse, overlooked and lost elements of daily life is an exploration of the spaces we inhabit, starting with the body, the first place that contains us. I am exploring the presence of the body in the city, the ways of inhabiting spaces and the brittle narrative that links us to each other. Using almost exclusively found and re-used materials (fabric, torn garments, fragments, small objects found on the street), I assemble the various materials in relation to each other taking cues from existing stains and other mishaps. These combinations of accidents and intentions are a materialization of fugitive moments, gestures and encounters. I create unstable and fragile structures and architectures for my characters to occupy and to be contained. These emotional landscapes born from personal and collective experiences, create a shared mythology of the spaces we inhabit daily. A rhythm of hanging elements, a choreography of gestures, body positions appear within these places of passage. The characters I depict and their shadows or traces haunt my textile pieces. They live within uncertain landscapes, hanging by a thread or on the verge of falling, like confronted to the unpredictable and the randomness of living. The figures slowly fade and merge with their environment,...

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