Yellow Velvet presents Artnatomy by Cecile Dachary
I have been told that sleeping well is perfect for the mood, some good rest helps for sure our health and it affects all our daily activities. In addition to a good sleep why not to improve also the aesthetic side of our night or of our comfort zones? I ended up on the website of an amazing gallery called Yellow Velvet, the artists here are called to express their creativity through a curious media: the pillow.
At the moment I’m working on a fashion movie, so the first images that came to mind on looking at these amazing creations, were daily situations where people embrace their pillows recalling old memories and sleeping on their sofa in a snowy afternoon. Others fragments of memories can come from one of my favorite movie: The Pillow Book, directed by Peter Greenaway. The movie tells the story of a young girl in Japan who grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies.
Thanks to Yellow Velvet we cannot only sleep well but we can also have an artist’s artworks under our noble head. The gallery presents: “Artnatomy”, an interactive exhibition of Cecile Dachary that takes place on the “Absolutely Fabulous” session of their site. It’s needless to say how much the result is interesting, both in the choice of physical organs depicted than in the surreal way she represents them by sewing through embroidery or crochet. She likes to contrast the delicateness of needlework and the notion of trash by using damask fabric and applying fabric images of organs, like embroidered bones or crocheted breasts.
Focusing primarily on the human body and its different forms, her work centers on the notion of memory and the passing of time. One of my favorite cushion is “Balcony”, she created a pair of “boobs” made from pink damask covered by a pink crocheted breast with a raised red nipple; it’s not easy to see it, but there’s also a tiny silver nipple ring on it. An absolutely abstract and sophisticated way to bring human bodies in your bed.
