Célia Picard & Hannes Schreckensberger

Under The Seven Planets Parade

Célia Picard and Hannes Schreckensberger explored during their three months artist-in-residency the remote rural areas of the Cycladic Island of Sifnos and Tinos to glean unused raw wool from sheep farmers as well as the industrial areas around Athens to find leftover wool from the local textile production in order to procure there base material. From these the duo produced through preindustrial low-tech methods large-sized tapestries. Mystical symbols of animals, plants and cosmological constellations ornament these non-woven textiles. Each of them are like protective talisman which stands for different matters: fertility, health, power, collaboration and luck. The symbols are inspired by oracular decorations discovered in Greece on historical embroidered textiles, antique ceramics and vernacular architectures. These woolen textiles are for Célia Picard and Hannes Schreckensberger not only simple tapestries but rather portable protective architectural elements.

2022, hand felted sheep wool, 120 x 160 x 2 cm


July 2022, exhibition, One Minute Space, Athens, Greece

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