With a university degree in management, Blandine Calendrier follows a classic career path, while keeping up with the arts. An eclectic and occasional practice is accompanied by an initiatory journey leading to the discovery of what art is. A means of expression that she seizes in half-words, which will remain latent before definitively imposing itself.
Sensitive and open to the world, she feeds on everything around her. Then she focuses, to retain the essential, and to return to it again and again. We find this determination in her work, because nothing has left her since her starting point. Her work is part of a few major series that she constantly explores in back and forth: Bulles, Les Echos Silencieux, Forêts, Vibrations, Epiderme.
After studying and experimenting in workshops, she took up her favorite material: textiles. She also tackled clay modeling, and in 2016, she learned Japanese calligraphy. This initial calligraphic gesture, raw and instinctive, takes on another dimension on paper.
Tactile experience, the textile material takes on meaning first under her fingers. She sculpts the fiber, this fiber present from the beginning to the end of our lives. An innocuous material to the point of forgetting its importance, shells that translate the intimacy of our existences. The creative process is the driving force behind this intuitive expression. It is part of everyday sensitivity. The abstract shapes in relief reconnect the shapes of the outside to those of the inside, to transfigure what is inside into an existential poetry.
Technique: sculpted canvas, acrylic, ink
