With a easy fold reworking paper from flat floor to sculptural quantity, this easy gesture lies on the coronary heart of Folded Echoes – a collaboration between textile designer Nathalie Van der Massen and ceramic artist Karen Verlinden. Their 17 mixed-media items had been created from this intervention, exhibiting craft custom via primary materials manipulations.
Van der Massen’s room dividers anchor the gathering with architectural presence, woven from linen and paper yarns. The paper threads, usually fragile and ephemeral, achieve energy via weaving whereas retaining their important character – a paradox that speaks to the broader themes of the collaboration. The divider operates concurrently as sculpture and display.
Verlinden responds in ceramic kind via her sculptural low desk, the place the reminiscence of folded paper finds permanence in clay. The ceramic translation amplifies the unique gesture whereas essentially altering its nature – what was as soon as collapsible turns into mounted. Her wall sculptures reveal how shadow turns into an lively participant within the work’s intention, their look shifting with altering mild situations all through the day.
“We need to discover the boundaries of various media – the distinction between exhausting and gentle supplies, heavy and lightweight buildings. These tensions improve the sculptural qualities of our work,” says Karen Verlinden.
The collaboration represents greater than aesthetic experiment – it embodies a technique for interdisciplinary making that might affect future craft schooling and apply. By sustaining particular person creative voices inside collective exploration, Van der Massen and Verlinden reveal how collaborative craft can protect private expression whereas increasing technical and conceptual potentialities.
View extra info on Folded Echoes at Nathalie Van der Massen’s web site or Karen Verlinden’s web site.
Pictures by Tijs Vervecken.
