Textile artist and and featherworker, Estelle Garcia Blanco (1995), combines installations and sculptural paintings. She works only with reclaimed feathers — taken from old pillows (goose and duck) or collected in urban spaces (pigeon and parakeet). Her practice is careful, almost ritualistic, focusing on life and its traces. Through the image of the bird — both a fragile remnant and a poetic figure — she questions our connection to nature and to what is disappearing. In a world full of images and spectacle, she chooses to work with subtle, hidden feathers, going against the tradition of masculine extravagance that has long shaped feather art.

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This work  invites reflection on how we inhabit the world and the memories we leave behind. It is an attempt to capture the ephemeral and to evoke the often-invisible traces that our actions imprint on the landscape.

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She is one of the winners of the Espronceda Prize delivered by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and laureate of the VOCATIO funds, patronized by BNP Paribas Fortis. She also won the Prize of Excellence from the City of Brussels upon graduating.​​​