Karine Jollet is an artist whose work explores the enigma of the human body. She creates “soft sculptures” out of recycled fabrics into anatomically correct body shapes.

Jollet sees an analogy between her working materials and “our own biological tissues: bones, fibers, crystals.”

I start with old bed sheets and shirts, embroidered handkerchieves and second-hand fabrics that I cut up, put the fragments together, pad them and then sew them by hand.

The resulting anatomical sculptures are beautiful yet slightly surreal—a lace skull, a pillow brain, squeezable metatarsals. Jollet believes anatomy possesses “a hidden dimension that connects us to an invisible, ideal order of things and also to a secret, dreamlike reality.”

These soft sculptures are produced in a dazzling white as “white evokes a world beyond the visible, beyond the living space of unity and purity.”

More of her work can be viewed here.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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