3rd Prize – Contemporary Creation Call 2012

Creation – Marie-Laure Bourgeois, French artist, architect, and designer born in 1955, living and working in France (St Géraud de Corps), and Vincent Bécheau, French artist, architect, and designer born in 1955, living and working in France. Weaving – Catherine Bernet Workshop, Felletin, 2016 Low-warp tapestry, cotton warp, wool and silk weft, 6-7 threads per cm Colors: dyed by Filature Terrade, Felletin (chemical dye)

Marie-Laure Bourgeois and Vincent Bécheau design both interior and urban furniture as well as sculptures. Toute personne 2 is part of a series of creations using writing and supporting activism for peace.

For this work, the artists reflected on war, peace, the concept of borders, and the representation of dialogue. The piece highlights the dual nature of borders, as both a line of separation declared by states and a zone of exchange inhabited by people. The letters serve as symbols of the universality of language, without any written message. Alphabets from around the world intersect and mingle, eventually giving way to a dense graphic pattern resembling a landscape.

The work consists of a rectangular tapestry with a cutout shaped like a door. On the back, the weft threads from the reverse side of the tapestry were left long and knotted in a regular pattern.

Toute personne 2 brings together, in one monumental piece (2.80m H x 8m W x 2m D), a carpet and a curtain, both traditional productions of Aubusson furnishing tapestries.