Praia Moda Spring/Summer

December 2023

Monochrome dyed fabrics, wood chips, pieces of wooden boats. Variable dimensions.

This project, carried out during the Sacatar residency in Brazil in 2023/2024.

This project is a kind of colourimetric archive. A succession of monochrome‑dyed fabrics derived from the extraction of colour from pieces of wood washed up and recovered on the beach of Itaparica (Bahia de todos os Santos, Bahia, Brazil). All these pieces of wood are local woods that were used in boat construction and have been shaped by humans for a very specific use related to their properties and characteristics (density, hardness, strength). The colour extracted from these woods becomes the quintessence of a memory. A state of affairs of a particular place where different eras intersect and where the scars of the intense history of this bay (colonisation, slavery, whaling, fishing, tourism…) meet a present full of colours and celebrations of all kinds on the beach.

« Praia Moda Spring/Summer 2023/2024 » literally « mode de plage printemps/été 2023/2024 » is a snapshot, in the photographic sense, a colour still image of an ever‑evolving interconnected world. The natural dye extracted and colouring the fabrics continues inexorably to evolve with time.

Stories are always about what others left behind... or what the sea is bringing back to us.

Résidence Sacatar — Brésil

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