PARIS LONDON EXCHANGE

PARIS LONDON EXCHANGE

Thursday, 28 October 2010

Tiphaine de Bodman



« It is possible to deal with our entire environment as a work of art. » (Marshall McLuhan)

Her thirst to analyze and decompose images is illustrated in the laborious hours spent sketching, cutting and carving. All of this goes hand in hand with her love for scientific drawing and natural history in general. In this respect, her passion enables her to create an aesthetic of her own.

London’s Natural History Museum, paired with her Saint Martins laboratory-like studio space, have led her to dig into the mysteries of the human body towards exploring the complex intricacies between Nature and mankind.

Her drawings, obsessive and intricate, remind us of zoomed microscope images. By blowing up details, they surprisingly start looking like abstract landscapes, cities, threatening meteorites or immense icebergs. Through this she achieves what she says is the most integral part of her creative process, taking tiny things and celebrating the grandeur of intricacies!

Nature is creating its proper pieces of Art.

Tiphaine’s work is a meticulous and delicate excavation of it, taking us slowly to an introspection of ourselves and the well-structured opinion of the world.

It is a brilliant stroke.