ÉMATOME - PARIS.FR

16 DECEMBER 2009

Written by TRAVIS LEE STREET

HAIRY PANTYHOSE [2001]               

    Looking through the portfolio of Ématome (as in haematoma) or Ématomic as she sometimes likes to be called, is seeing the progression of a twisted visionary from the minuscule realm of s'hy' photography to the grandiose embrace of a towering personal installation. A self-proclaimed "anarchitect", Ématome finds great satisfaction in combining places, stories and history to create what she calls an 'echo to subversion'. 
 

MY GRANDMOTHER'S MOLES PAY TRIBUTE TO Robert SMITHSON [2002]               

The core of her work involves installations conceived and developed as "space transplants" and "plastic phenomenons" which she describes as;

A path leading to the anti static realm.

A certain tendency to short lived experiences.

An almost chaotic dance through some huge expanded spaces.
 

STOP COVER(ing) ME [2006]               

Her work reaches out to you in a way that a mother would if she saw you hurt or injured. Of course that mother would probably be a black widow spider and you would more than likely be its more recent victim, but that's besides the point.

Spectre #3 [2009]               

Like Picabia and Duchamp, Ématome employs a tongue and cheek reference to the titles and language involved in her pieces which adds a sense of much needed playfulness to her otherwise threatening installations. With any good installation piece, a closer inspection will bring new life to the fertile ground in the mind that it encroaches upon.

LA MAMA #03 [2007]               

Peering closely, one can see that Ématome's main constructional elements simply and neatly consist of stolen bar straws, socks, tights and pantyhose. If you bump into her in the street you'd expect to see a few loose straws fall to the ground along with fragments of what used to be some undergarments. But in working with such elements, there is a certain energy that resonates from her work. As she utilizes these everyday objects, she implicates them in all sorts of familial, regenerative forms that can successfully take the shapes of spectres, seeds, mother spiders and rifts through time and space.

SPECTRAL SEED n°01[2006]               

Ématome redefines the space around her in order to create a three dimensional canvas in which the audience "can live, dive, melt and eventually share a contemporary, plastic adventure."

SPECTRAL SEED #02 [2006]               

I think she can most succulently sum up her own works, as well as most of the universe when she says;

Spectre is a phenomenal structure,

Materialization of the energy within the space

Connected to its history present and future.

It gives visibility to the invisible.

Parallel worlds, impalpable ones, are now one concrete reality.

We cannot deny, it's here!

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