SONGES D'UNE VIE
(MY DREAMS)
Julianna Joos
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The twelve
jacquard weavings of ‘Songes d’une vie » are personal appropriations
of themes found in the vanities from the Renaissance. White knots tie the
monochromatic images that represent symbols referring to the artist and her
activities, to life and death, to slowness and eroticism, to power and skills
but also to things ephemeral and insignificant. The knot is used as a metaphor.
The forms are esthetic while the symbols want to be forceful.
Fisherman’s knots were used to convey stability within the confusion
of destiny. A tied knot refers to a specific situation; to undo a knot provokes
either a crisis and death or a solution and freedom.
In this project a new technology is associated to a traditional medium. The
weavings are jacquard weavings made in linen. Jacquard weaving has promoted
weaving to new levels: the images are prepared digitally, the looms read the
informations saved by the software but the artworks are hand-woven and this
way keep the qualities of traditional weaving. The beauty, colour, texture
of the fibers are still present.