Tapestry Installation on the Theme "Matrix-Tapestry" – Contemporary Creation Call 2014

Creation – Pascal Haudressy, artist born in 1968 of Tatar origin, lives and works in France (Paris). Weaving – Atelier Patrick Guillot, Aubusson and Cc Brindelaine, 2015 Sculpture and Video: Artist's workshop. Low-warp tapestry, cotton warp, cotton, silk, linen, viscose weft, 5 warp threads per cm Dimensions – 3.20m H x 4.70m W Colors – 5 colors, dye by Thierry Roger, Aubusson (chemical dye) Sculpture in resin Video projection

Pascal Haudressy focuses his work on movement, materiality, and immateriality. "He explores the profound transformations of our world, where biological entities have never coexisted as much with forms of digital life. Each of his works forms a link or reconciliation between the past and the future, nature and human activity, science and myth, or the East and the West."

The Matrix-Tapestry "If" continues the history of Aubusson’s verdure with a vibrating, moving piece where a physical space, fixed like a heritage pedestal (the tapestry), plays with immateriality and a renewed movement, reconfigured in a contemporary synthesis. Pascal Haudressy was inspired by Caspar David Friedrich’s painting The Tree of Crows, introducing a contemplative and meditative dimension into his installation. He emphasizes the motif of the crow as a link between the physical world and the spiritual realm. The tapestry, far from being a mere screen, exists in subtle emulsion with the projected image and the three-dimensional sculpture, creating a matrix-generating artwork made of heritage materials, light, and movement.