Martine SCHILDGE Touching the shadows Year of... Lot 22

Martine SCHILDGE Touching the shadows Year of production: 2018 Material: drawing on print, framed under glass Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm Biography, presentation of artistic approach: Born on December 1, 1951 in Paris, Martine Schildge lives and works in Paris. "The thread of my research began with the representation of the body, working with textiles and different materials. After the white years, I came across another body, a mineral object, stone. In the beginning, it is the encounter of a forgotten stone, found, chosen, felt, carried in the hands. It's discovering its material and reading its form. Removed from its environment / moved / wrapped in felt, it is transformed, it becomes a sculpture. It is also an ancestral story of strength, size and weight. I wrap them in white felt like bodies that are covered with a membrane. The stitching rewrites each facet and traces the lines of junction. The stitches underline the scars of the mineral. The imprint of time has disappeared, a tiny part of the material is revealed. I take care and protect it, this gesture is perhaps a consolation gesture, another skin. A new process of creation moves me. The stones have become white. I install them on the ground. I can use another material like the mirror that allows me to play with the reflections and the splitting of the landscape. One loses the notion of a horizon. With each installation, a narrative is formed like a topography where volume is important. It is to deploy the idea of a landscape, to reveal other poetic forms. I work on different scales according to the places to be inhabited. I photograph a landscape in which I find the stones laid, silent and powerful of their stories. The impact of the black and white image allows me to approach the composition of a landscape, the obviousness of the black appeared. Confronted with a realistic image, I proceed to different manipulations, its covering, its disappearance as a distance.