Morgane TSCHIEMBER

A native of Brest,Morgane Tschiember studied at the Quimper School of Fine Arts and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, from which she graduated in 2002.

Morgane Tschiember’s work is multifaceted: painting, sculpture, installations, photography, and performance art, working with all kinds of materials (concrete, wood, ceramics, rope, metal, expanding foam, sand, glass…) and exploring the connections and “dynamics between materials.” In her series, she always reveals the structural elements, the stages of transformation, the seams, and “the process by which the pieces are made.”

For its 19th edition, Private Choice presents a stool from the Shibari stool series. Its solid oak beams, polished and oiled, arebound by skillfully knotted linen ropes; the wood, notched on the surface, “almost closes in around the rope.” Morgane Tschiember’s workresonates with the millennia-old art of Shibari, which she discovered during a stay at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto. In Japan, this technique—which originated with the samurai and is also incorporated into certain sexual practices—is adopted by gardeners who shape trees by binding them.

In addition to this piece, there is also the series titled “You Know Better than Me,” consisting of table-sculptures characterized by soft, organic forms, about which the artist writes:

“Like a shape just beginning to take form, you’ll know better than I do what it brings to mind. Sand, sky, pistachio, skin, cherry… you’ll know better than I do which color to choose. Soft, rounded, almost organic—you’ll know better than I do where it will fit in.”

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