This fluffy bench designed in 2020 by Pauline Esparon caught my eye when coming throughout the picture above on Instagram. With its tender, sculptural type and uncooked texture, it reveals a totally totally different facet of linen, extra instinctive and pure than the graceful woven cloth we often know. I believed it regarded each sturdy and poetic.
The bench is made utilizing scutched flax, an early stage of linen, the place the fibers are left untouched by industrial processes. At the moment, most flax grown in Europe is exported to China to be processed after which introduced again once more. A system that makes little sense for such a sustainable, native materials. By working immediately with the uncooked fibers and maintaining manufacturing in Normandy, Pauline reveals how issues could be accomplished in a different way and extra regionally and actually.
Pauline Esparon
Pauline Esparon performs with the notion of ‘rawness’, a type of archaism, a main state of supplies earlier than their standardization by trade. Kinds from the vegetal, the animal or the mineral worlds could be intertwined. Her works at all times begin with the investigation of supplies, and slide from an instinctive analysis to a particular form.
This method is as wise as contextual, by questioning each the qualities of supplies and the tradition of supplies, their heritage, their survival, their programs. Every mission envisions a proposition to tweak manufacturing for the higher and think about humble supplies, processes, functions of manufacturing in addition to attainable views for crafts.
Pauline Esparon’s work has entered prestigious public collections, comparable to Le Mobilier Nationwide, the CNAP (Centre Nationwide d’Arts Plastiques) and the FRAC Hauts-de-France. // bio through Pauline Esparon //
Picture Credit Stéphane Ruchaud
