Stefanie Salzmann
Disrupted gardens of pleasure / Jardin Oscillant
Stefanie Salzmann (1986)
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Master, Fashion-Design, Institut Français de la Mode (IFM), Paris (FR), 2014;
Bachelor, Fashion-Design, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, 2011
Disrupted gardens of pleasure / Jardin Oscillant
2019–2021
Brussels (BE), Ried-Brig and Oaxaca (ME)
Disrupted gardens of pleasure is an ongoing series and includes the free works Hold me tight, produced in 2019 during a residency in Oaxaca, and Jardin Oscillant, which was produced for and in the Maison des cultures Molenbeek (BE) for the exhibition CO.COON 2021.
Yarn spinning: Filature du Hibou, Boninne (BE), Frederique Bagoly; rope making: Seilerei Herzog, Wilisau, Guido Herzog
Jardin Oscillant, 2021 consists of a felted tapestry and wool ropes; Hold me tight, felted sculpture, 2019
Jardin Oscillant: 300 cm × 120 cm × 300 cm (width depends on installation); Hold me tight: 160 cm × 60 cm
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Hold me tight: wool dyed with indigo; Jardin Oscillant: wool dyed with madder, indigo, reseda, mellow blossom, liquen and sandalwood, wool rope, metal pieces
Wool: Salzmann family, Ried-Brig; indigo: Oaxaca Textile Museum (ME); reseda: Le champ des couleurs, La Roque d’Anthéron (FR); mellow blossoms, sandalwood, madder: Kremer Pigmente, Aichstetten (DE); liquen: forest in Ried-Brig; metal pieces: Almacen de Pontejos, Madrid (ES) and Seilerei Herzog, Wilisau
Stefanie Salzmann’s practice is closely linked to the story of her preferred material, the wool of her family’s Blacknose sheep. She explores the materiality of wool and uses it to craft sculptures and tapestries. Disrupted gardens of pleasure is a series of works that revolve around gardens; the garden is present metaphorically, as motifs distorted through the artistic process and in the botanical dyes. The textiles are insulating felted tapestries, like Jardin Oscillant, in which woollen ropes, developed in collaboration with a Swiss rope maker, weave into a hammock. They ingrain the slowness of the rhythms and the attention paid to the growth of nature. The works strike a balance between art and design and seek out sites in public spaces, galleries, fashion weeks, or, most recently, a cultural centre. Stefanie often produces them site-specifically and invites people to follow the performative process.
