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#clay
#coral
#discovered objects
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September 2, 2021
Grace Ebert
Artist Stéphanie Kilgast (beforehand) envisions a vibrant, post-apocalyptic world overgrown with coral, fungi, and plush moss. Utilizing low cost gadgets and disposable containers that are likely to outlast their unique operate as her base, Kilgast creates painted-clay assemblages which are teeming with fantastical colours and texture: mushrooms sprout from an empty paint tube, sea creatures envelop a crushed can, and flowers cloaks a pair of headphones with whimsical botanicals.
Every of the works contrasts the enduring manufactured object with pure development, imagining a universe that’s concurrently devoid of humanity and nonetheless marred by its rampant consumption habits. “In that sense my work is joyous. I take away the basis of the issue, us, and let all the opposite species simply develop over our errors,” she shares. “Nature itself is filled with vivid colours. It’s inherently lovely, and my work is an ode to all of the residing and current species, (besides) for us. Hope dies final, so I nonetheless hope my work opens up dialogue, considering, and finally change.”
At the moment primarily based in Vannes, France, Kilgast has exhibitions at Comoedia in Brest, France, Trendy Eden in San Francisco, and three at Melbourne’s Beinart Gallery slated for 2022. She additionally shares a lot of her course of on YouTube and Instagram.
#clay
#coral
#discovered objects
#crops
#sculpture
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