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 protean: paintings, sculptures, installations, photos, performances, working with all materials (concrete, wood, ceramics, rope, metal, expanding foam, sand, glass...) and experimenting with correspondences and " relationships of forces between materials ". In her series, she always reveals the elements of construction, the stages of transformation, the seams, "the system by which the parts are made".

For its 2023 edition, Private Choice presents a bench from the Shibari stool series, created by the custom art publisher ColAAb, founded by Aurélie Sarallier. Its solid oak beams, polished and oiled, are held together by skilfully knotted linen cords; the wood, notched on the surface, "almost closes in on the cord". Morgane Tschiember's work resonates with the age-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 used in certain sexual practices, is adopted by gardeners, who shape trees by binding them.

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