VÉRONIQUE BUIST
1 Novembro 2017 – 30 Novembro 2017
BIO:
WEBSITE:
https://veroniquebuist.com/
PROJECT:
Entre fleurs et fêlures, tellement peu | At first sight, Véronique Buist's works appear as decorative patterns. In fact, her method begins above all with embroidery, moving on from what is a highly precise, typically female skill. On looking more carefully, though, you see nothing romantic or specifically feminine in her works. They are dense, bearers of a sense of being lost and displaced in life, immerse in a sculpted geography that alludes to many things. With a set of scissors and needles, she spends hours cutting and assembling materials, obtaining a sculpted geography that alludes to many things. All of them, though, share a single theme - the form taken by life as it spreads and organises itself. It is there, in the themes and plots underlying the embroidery, that we see the way the roots of certain vegetables expand, the way the cells of living tissue develop, the way different kinds of towns unravel their networks of roads and electric-like circuits The artist thus takes her subjects from the real world, starting from anthropological, botanical and all kinds of scientific illustrations and geographical maps. In this perspective, even the allusion to domestic upholstery, with its rose and flower patterns, becomes a manifestation of how nature works - in this case via the dexterity and taste of man. The rite of life and its inevitable propagation are repeated, with the dry branches being left sometimes to die and sometimes to live.
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:
Artist talk | 11/11/17
Open studio | 23-24-25-26/11/17
VÉRONIQUE BUIST is a French Canadian multidisciplinary artist currently living in Montreal, Quebec. After getting a BA in Visual and Mediatic arts at UQÀM, her work has brought her in Europe to explore and research. She’ve since developed a way to combine textile, drawing, photography, text and botanic elements. Her work has been presented in Canada, France and Belgium. Aside from her artistic course, she also works as a florist and writer.
WEBSITE:
https://veroniquebuist.com/
PROJECT:
Entre fleurs et fêlures, tellement peu | At first sight, Véronique Buist's works appear as decorative patterns. In fact, her method begins above all with embroidery, moving on from what is a highly precise, typically female skill. On looking more carefully, though, you see nothing romantic or specifically feminine in her works. They are dense, bearers of a sense of being lost and displaced in life, immerse in a sculpted geography that alludes to many things. With a set of scissors and needles, she spends hours cutting and assembling materials, obtaining a sculpted geography that alludes to many things. All of them, though, share a single theme - the form taken by life as it spreads and organises itself. It is there, in the themes and plots underlying the embroidery, that we see the way the roots of certain vegetables expand, the way the cells of living tissue develop, the way different kinds of towns unravel their networks of roads and electric-like circuits The artist thus takes her subjects from the real world, starting from anthropological, botanical and all kinds of scientific illustrations and geographical maps. In this perspective, even the allusion to domestic upholstery, with its rose and flower patterns, becomes a manifestation of how nature works - in this case via the dexterity and taste of man. The rite of life and its inevitable propagation are repeated, with the dry branches being left sometimes to die and sometimes to live.
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:
Artist talk | 11/11/17
Open studio | 23-24-25-26/11/17