FABIENNE GUILBERT BURGOA
Knot on Fikir, 2019
Fabienne Guilbert Burgoa
Materials: vegetable and synthetic fibers for the matrix
3.5 x 3,5m
I believe in repair, 2019
Fabienne Guilbert Burgoa
Silkscreen on cotton
50x70cm
Laureate of Passages Residency, Fabienne Guilbert Burgoa works around the cultural heritage of southern latitudes.
Her work revolves around the meeting of contemporary design and traditional practices and techniques related to textiles.
In Addis Ababa, during her residency, Fabienne Guilbert Burgoa collaborated with textile artisans, ceramists and screen printers.
Rawness & Fineness
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Typology
Production residency
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Duration
8 weeks
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Destination
addis abeda
AAF presentation
Co-production
French alliance
knot onfikir
"During my residency in Addis Ababa, I created the piece Knot on fikir. It consists of emotions woven in real time. Interlacing of fibers and intertwining of lives.
A canvas for the term “love” - Fikir, in Amharic -, which struggles to contain all the emotions it embraces. Knot on fikir is a tapestry linked to the body, by its manufacture and by its setting in motion. Its activation, on the islands of Frioul, represents: palpitations, twinges in the heart and great flights.
Viewer, see this piece in its entirety. Its constitution, its process, the so-called imperfections, those that I look at with affection, but which are on the whole indifferent to you. The hollows and the recesses. The smiling wrinkles and the vales of tears. I want you to love, as I love, irrepressibly, to explore, to feel, to immerse yourself. And above all, that you love to love. "
I believe in repair
BROKEN
I EXTEND LIFE
OF THE INJURED OBJECT,
I BELIEVE IN REPAIR.
I DISCOVER IMPERFECT AFFECTION,
I HUG HIM
AND THROWS ME INTO THE VOID.
IN MY FALL,
I GET RID OF INHERITANCES
AND SORE IN MY CHEST.
I CHOOSE TO LIVE,
BECAUSE IN THE END,
NO ONE ESCAPES PAIN
AND YET,
WE DON'T ALL DARE TO LOVE.
REVOLUTION LIVES IN MOVEMENT.
I BELIEVE IN REPAIR.
I believe in repair is a manifesto of the movement, linked to the deconstructions of the southern latitudes. Used both in East Africa and in Mesoamerica, the tonalities of the earth facades and the stone millstone represented evoke the connection between these two spaces.
The artist collaborated with the ceramists Saitu, Gete, Tezeta.
"The roomknot on fikir is made up of emotions woven in real time. Interlacing of fibers and intertwining of lives. A canvas for the termlove -Fikir, in Amharic-, who struggles to contain all the emotions he embraces.
knot on fikiris a tapestry linked to the body, by its manufacture and by its setting in motion."
© Making of : Myriam Bou-saha, South side.
in partnership with
Alliance Française
The Alliance Française d'Addis-Abeba is a non-profit association promoting cultural and linguistic exchanges between France and Ethiopia since 1907. Its main mission is the teaching of the French language and the promotion of the arts and Culture.