Bergère, 2008

Marianne Cresson  

On wood, vegetable horsehair and jute canvas, nailed and sewn assembly of trimmings, braids, ribbons, beads, buttons and decorative nails. Hanging system: 9 cm loop in trimmings on the top of the piece. 125x45x8 cm (hanging loop and ribbons included). In the Busts series, Marianne Cresson seeks more an evocation than a representation of the body. There it is dismembered, exaggerated then recomposed to extract sensuality. The textile crushed, constrained and stretched to the extreme, the generous and rounded shapes call to be touched. The choice of bright colors brings joy. The creative process in which the work of Marianne Cresson is inscribed is akin to the diversion of techniques, the diversion of objects and the diversion of meaning. What happens when techniques, traditionally used in the context of siege making, are misled into the making of functional objects? The object freed from its usefulness is returned to sensuality, to joy… but also responsible for carrying the memory of a lost “seat”. The technically innovative aspect consists of a pioneering approach to tapestry in art. It is therefore a question, on the one hand, of removing traditional techniques from their formatting (showing that we can do something else with them) and, on the other hand, of making their corpus available to the artist. Caught in a multiple movement of simplification, diversification and adaptation, the techniques that she implements make it possible to enrich the vocabulary of textile work: more complex shapes, rounded edges, angles, assortment of colors and volumes, hollows and reliefs , emancipation of materials… Experimentation is permanent.