Phantasms

On view in Phantasms is Zurich-based fiber artist Marie Schumann, who incorporates analogous thinking about mechanical error into her work.

Much of her process, Schumann explains, creates reliable results — but there is a lot that cannot be foreseen. In the Monofil Folds series, glitches created by the mechanised loom are preserved, given as much space and attention as the artist’s intentional gestures. Light reflections and creases in the jacquard weave give Schumann’s surfaces a three-dimensionality that embodies the sensory aspects of sight. The screens appear to ripple as though made of water in constant, changing relationship to light, or like the monitor of a computer shimmering with new windows of information.

Schumann’s photographic source material is not always immediately discernible in the finished sculpture. The trace it leaves is understated – more like an atmosphere or mood. Her fiber sculptures meditate on the physical properties of her materials, how one medium might imitate or translate itself into another. A pixel-based file — a format legible only through a computer — becomes a tangible, tactile thing in space, an enveloping architecture.

— excerpt from exhibition text by Dr. Rebecca Birrell

Group show at Carvalho New York
curated by Jennifer Carvalho with artists Elli Antoniou, Élise Peroi, Marie Schumann, Kristian Touborg.

Photos: Carvalho New York

Monofil Folds – blue lilac

the soft sculpture has two sides and shows
different (hollow) structures on both.
200 × 140 cm
Monosuisse-Monofil, polyester, Trevira CS, Elirex on aluminium frame.

Next to works by Kristian Touborg.

Monofil Folds – lilac yellow green

the soft sculpture has two sides and shows
different (hollow) structures on both.
200 × 140 cm
Monosuisse-Monofil, polyester, Elirex on aluminium stick.

Next to works by Élise Peroi.

Monofil Folds – moss green

the soft sculpture has two sides and shows
different (hollow) structures on both.
200 × 140 cm
Monosuisse-Monofil, polyester, Trevira CS on aluminium frame.

Next to works by Elli Antoniou and a zoom in.

© Marie Schumann