Morgane TSCHIEMBER

Originally from Brest, Morgane Tschiember studied at the Beaux-Arts in Quimper and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, from which she obtained her degree in 2002.

Morgane Tschiember's work is protean: painting, sculptures, installations, photos, performances, working with all materials (concrete, wood, ceramic, rope, metal, expanding foam, sand, glass, etc.) and experimenting with the correspondences and the "relationships of force between materials". In her series, she always reveals the elements of construction, the stages of transformation, the seams, "the manufacturing system of the pieces."

Private Choice presents for its 2023 edition a bench from the Shibari stool series, produced by the ColAAb house of functional art, founded by Aurélie Sarallier. Its solid oak beams, polished and oiled, are encircled by skillfully knotted linen ropes; the wood, notched on the surface, "almost closes in on the rope." Morgane Tschiember's work resonates with the ancient art of Shibari, which she discovered during a stay at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto. In Japan, this technique originating from the samurai, also used in certain sexual practices, is adopted by gardeners who shape the form of trees by tying them.

Presentation taken from the text by Pascale Le Thorel for ColAAb.