Morgane Tschiember

Originally from Brest, Morgane Tschiember studied at the Beaux-Arts de Quimper and then at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, graduating in 2002.

Morgane Tschiember’s work is multifaceted: paintings, sculptures, installations, photos, performances, working all materials (concrete, wood, ceramics, rope, metal, expanding foam, sand, glass…) and experimenting with correspondences and “relationships of force between materials”. Then in her series, she always reveals the construction elements, the stages of transformation, the seams, the “manufacture’s system”.

For its 2023 edition, Private Choice presents a bench from the Shibari stool series, created by ColAAb, founded by Aurélie Sarallier. Its beams of solid wood are polished and oiled, and held together by knotted linen ropes; the wood, notched on the surface, “almost closes over the cord”. Morgane Tschiember’s work resonates with the age-old art of Shibari she discovered at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto. In Japan, this technique from the samurai is also used in sexual practices or by gardeners, who shape trees by tying them.

Presentation based on a text by Pascale Le Thorel for ColAAb.