“Ancestor”, 2005, old bed sheet and wadding, 36cm x 43cm x 25cm. Karine Jollet
Karine Jollet is an artist based in Paris who specializes in sculpture, metals, and design. Her main focus has always been on exploring the relationship between the outer surface and the contents of objects. She began working with textiles since it was a softer and more flexible medium, and eventually started using recycled fabrics such as old bed sheets and shirts to create sculptures that resemble the human body. Her work has been exhibited in private and collective exhibitions across France and in Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, and Japan.
Jollet’s sculptures show depictions of the human body, including organs, muscles and faces, but without any of the messiness or blood. All of her work is created in white fabric, which she uses as a symbol for skin, representing the “covering that conceals what lies beneath”. Jollet’s art challenges viewers to reconsider their perceptions of the human body by isolating it from its more unsettling aspects and presenting it in an almost ethereal light.
“Tribute to hypophysis – Brain”, 2011, old bed sheet, shirt, embroidery, pearl, polyester fiber and electric wire, 70cm x 19cm x 19cm.
drawing into space 