Chloé Vanderstraeten
The moult, 2022
Residences Art Explora x Artagon
To coincide with the transformation of Hangar Y into a cultural and events venue, 10 young, recently graduated artists have been invited by Art Explora and Artagon to reuse materials from the hangar's construction site to create works of art, during a residency in September 2022.
Chloé Vanderstraeten
The moult, 2022
drawing and folding on paper, metal, 200 x 170 x 30 cm. Metal-bearing collaboration: Simon Denise.
Description of the work
Drawing inspiration from the rich iconography of 19th-century medical treatises, artist Chloé Vanderstraeten aims to explore the bygone techno-scientific imaginaries of that era, in order to question the aesthetic heritage and beliefs of contemporary science. The envelope of skin that seems to constitute the installation is akin to the fictitious moult of the airship that once inhabited the bowels of Hangar Y. This epidermis, stripped of all corporeity, appears as the ghost of modern machines and the trace of a bygone era. As a medium for technical drawing and the Montgolfier brothers' first hot-air balloon prototypes, paper - worked by paving and patterning - is the main material of her work. She considers it as much a surface for inscription as a surface to be folded, cut, sewn or manipulated. Here, paper is apprehended for its sensitive, tactile potential, in contrast to its use in industrial production planning at the time of modernity.
Biographyof the artist
Chloé Vanderstraeten is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. She is a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2021).
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