Designer
The residency will introduce me to a new technique, embroidery, and allow me to explore the scales, applications and materials involved. My interest in jute, a fiber grown mainly in India, will enable me to take the material out of its utilitarian connotations and unfold its decorative potential.
Pauline Esparon's work revolves around the notion of the “ brut ”, a form of archaism, a primary state of matter before its standardization by industry. Pauline Esparon plays with the primary form of materials, deconstructing the obvious uses and forms that often surround them. This approach is also contextual, questioning the cultivation of materials, their heritage, their survival, their system. In this way, each project expresses the wish for a more virtuous practice of design, and defines an alternative form of production by questioning poor materials, implementation techniques, and the perspectives of craftsmanship.