Alaïs Sculpture

By using the medium of cardboard, Marie-Anne Thieffry allows this consummate consumer packaging to become the central element of light, poetic and luminous work. By re-interpreting the raw material, she makes it evolve: it is no longer a simple container, it becomes the piece’s main component, it’s no longer an everyday material but the substrate of new forms and emotions. This artist inverses the normal feeling of indifference towards cardboard and presents it as a material ‘synonymous with freedom’, pliable and of a great duality. The soft elegance of the contours contradicts the rigidity of the material, thus creating a paradox. By associating light and transparency with this crude, often ignored medium, Marie-Anne Thieffry creates a plastic and sensitive form of expression that interplays the envelopment of forms and that which is hidden within, whilst alternating between lightness, poetry and sensuality...