The Carriers - The Carriers
by Fanny Allié
- Printed in France
* UNE RÉDUCTION DE 15% s'applique aux communes de moins de 5 000 habitants.Contactez-nous pour bénéficier de cette remise.
* POUR TOUTES LES COMMUNES, une réduction de 10% s'applique automatiquement à partir de 3 expositions commandées.
Technique: garbage bags sewn onto canvas.
Exhibition available in several formats.
A legend reported by Pliny the Elder traces the art of silhouette painting back to Dibutades, daughter of the Corinthian potter Butades. To preserve the image of the young man with whom she was in love, the young woman surrounded the shadow of his face projected on the wall by the light of a lantern with a line...
With this series of life-size figures, Fanny Allié renews the art of Dibutade by working from garbage bags sewn onto canvas. Far from the salon cutouts that prevailed in the 19th century, Fanny Allié draws inspiration from photographs taken in the street, mixed with gleaned images and imaginary characters. Her work acquires an almost tragic social dimension through the use of ephemeral materials, which her models confront day after day.
Merging with both their environment and the objects they carry, the figures border on abstraction without ever tipping into it. The lost-shoe-woman, the cape-man, the shadow-woman, the barefoot-man, the butterfly-man, the cardboard-man—the titles of the works express what Fanny Allié captures of their urban migrations and encourage us to look more closely, to look more.
Captured in silhouette, as if suspended, the fragile characters become the protagonists of a myth or a familiar tale, souls lost in the spaces we occupy daily.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
