Estelle Garcia Blanco
The Bird, 2024, pillow, feathers and sieve, 80 x 50 x 45 cm
Killing two birds with one shot
2022 -
Using animal materials is increasingly complicated and out of step with our current societal and environmental concerns. By recovering secondhand pillows, Estelle Garcia Blanco finds a material rich in meaning : recycled waste and an intimate symbolic object. Through the use of overcycled pillows, it questions our intimate consciousness linked to a daily object.
What is the relationship between the pillow and its feathers? This gesture of opening an old pillow looks like turning the skin of a bird. Those poultry feathers has proved to be rich in possibilities, up to the point of giving rise to several substances. Worked on the surface, it becomes a fictitious skin with a fur appearance.
Worked into space, it becomes a hybrid body with all the dreamlike load that this entails. But above all, the bird, as a poetic animal, appears like the mirror of our ecological concerns and try to give our waste their rightful place.
Firmly trapped in a net of silk, 2022, pillow feathers, silk organdi, 60 x 80 x 2 cm
On the trail of the first bird, 2022, pillow feathers, silk, plaster, 60 x 42 x 3 cm
