Maude Sauvage

Creating a body with its material, its color, its composition. Maude Sauvage’s research process began with the felting of animal fibers, wool, and the density they generate. The shaping, composition, and spatial arrangement of this process, combined with other materials, became imperative. Gradually, she developed a relationship with these materials that had both a physical and psychic dimension: from material to form, from form to possible body.

Through shapes and materials, Maude explores the interaction of a body with its environment. How does it position itself, introduce itself, withdraw, reappear, hide, penetrate? In her work, the body is a solid, almost insurmountable boundary. Yet, when confronted with the other, it enters into dialogue, modifies its form, and adapts to the interaction. This body is in constant negotiation with other bodies and the environments that surround it.

The interactions Maude creates question the relationship of the individual, always in dialogue with their own body, with the other, and with the surrounding space. They also explore this intermediate space: between contact and absence, between fullness and emptiness.

In a society marked by individualism, this dialogue is often weakened, even stifled. Maude’s work seeks to materialize this quest for connection, sometimes alive, sometimes empty, but always present.