Invite an artist. Co-build a protocol. Let the work circulate differently.
Tana Kim® invite un plasticien contemporain à investir un support qu’il n’a jamais exploré : la jupe trapèze et le sac coordonné.
L’artiste n’intervient pas sur une commande définie à l’avance. Il apporte son univers, ses séries, sa manière de voir.
Le travail réalisé est le résultat de la rencontre entre son geste et le support textile.
Together, the creator and the artist develop a protocol. The artist paints. Tana Kim® shapes. The protocol transforms. What you wear today can become a painting tomorrow.
Two gestures. One same breath.
Michel Clouin has been working for years on form, trace and the dialogue between mediums.
Acrylic, oil, ink or wax paintings, on canvas, paper, Plexiglas, Rhodoïd.
From one series to the next, he reinvents himself without ever renouncing the hand, the material, the gesture.
It is this consistent commitment to excellence that led Nathalie to offer him the Tana Kim® medium.
His series Danses and Retours now live on the pieces of the Expression collection — worn, in movement, where no one expected them.
"My work moves between figuration and abstraction. It evolves with time — always searching for new translations, new restitutions. Each series is a reflection, like so many bricks building a perception.
I paint reality to brush against the unspeakable, I touch abstraction to reveal lived experience. To speak with one voice, to paint with one hand. My work is a walk in search of perspectives, of different gazes, each step leads to another, each canvas flows into the next, one gesture, so as not to die confined."
Chaque pièce de la collection Expression est unique.
It carries the hand of Michel Clouin, painted directly onto the fabric, and the gesture of Nathalie Tardif who conceived and shaped it.
It is worn. It is shown. It is transformed.
Grâce au protocole co-développé les pièces peuvent devenir des tableaux, soit une transformation du diptyque (ensemble jupe/sac) en quadriptyque (4 tableaux).
Le corps est la première scène d’exposition. Le mur est la seconde.
At the Musée Soulages in Rodez, Nathalie and Michel visit the Agnès Varda exhibition.
Deux univers créatifs face à l’œuvre d’une femme qui n’a jamais accepté qu’on lui dise où et comment l’art devait vivre.
« Je suis curieuse. Point. Je trouve tout très intéressant. La vraie vie. La fausse vie… » Agnès Varda
Cette phrase aurait pu être la leur.
