Oli Sorenson.

TEXTILES NUMÉRIQUES
En continuation des séries Anthropocène et Capitalocène exécutées entre 2020 et 2024, la série TEXTILES NUMÉRIQUES représente certaines des activités humaines contribuant à la pollution de la Terre. En plus des images de technologie récentes et moins récentes qui remplissent les sites d’enfouissement de façon accélérée via diverses mesures d’obsolescence programmée, la pièce maitresse Monument aux Combustibles Fossiles divulgue un récit d’extraction à outrance des ressources naturelles, à partir de la révolution industrielle. Le choix de réaliser ces œuvres en tapisserie sur métier Jacquard, initialement mis en fonction dans les usines textiles au tout début du dix-neuvième siècle, en amont de l’invention de la photographie, consiste à effectuer une filiation avec cette époque, un témoignage à la fois des expansions coloniales et de la révolution industrielle, une juxtaposition qui n’est pas accidentelle.

DIGITAL TEXTILES
In continuation with the Anthropocene and Capitalocene series executed between 2020 and 2024, the DIGITAL TEXTILES series represents some of the human activities contributing to Earth’s pollution. In addition to images of recent and less recent technology that fill landfill sites in an accelerated manner via various measures of planned obsolescence, the centerpiece Monument to Fossil Fuels divulges a narrative of excessive natural resource extraction, from the industrial revolution onward. The choice to create these works in tapestry on a Jacquard loom, initially used in textile factories at the very beginning of the nineteenth century, prior to the invention of photography, consists of establishing a connection with this era, a testimony both to colonial expansions and the industrial revolution, a juxtaposition that is not accidental.

MONUMENT TO FOSSIL FUEL (detail) - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, 242x41in, 615x104cm, 2023

CHIP (detail) - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, 40x41in, 101x104cm, 2023

BITCOIN FARM - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, 40x41in, 101x104cm, 2023

MOTHERBOARD - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, 40x41in, 101x104cm, 2023

MODEM - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, 40x41in, 101x104cm, 2023

TELEPHONES - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, 40x41in, 101x104cm, 2023

MONUMENT TO FOSSIL FUEL (work in studio) - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, 242x41in, 615x104cm, 2023

MONUMENT TO FOSSIL FUEL (within Infinite Variations show in Paris) - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, 242x41in, 615x104cm, 2023

MONUMENT TO FOSSIL FUEL (detail, within Infinite Variations show in Paris) - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, 242x41in, 615x104cm, 2023

MONUMENT TO FOSSIL FUEL (general view, within Infinite Variations show in Paris) - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, 242x41in, 615x104cm, 2023

MONUMENT TO FOSSIL FUEL (partial view, within Infinite Variations show in Paris) - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, 242x41in, 615x104cm, 2023

Partial view of various works within Infinite Variations show in Paris - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, each 40x41in, 101x104cm, 2023

Partial view of various works within Infinite Variations show in Paris - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, each 40x41in, 101x104cm, 2023

Partial view of various works within Digital Textiles show in Montreal - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, each 40x41in, 101x104cm, 2023

Partial view of various works within Digital Textiles show in Montreal - Jacquard loom and mercerised cotton, each 40x41in, 101x104cm, 2023

Close up studies for Digital Textiles - digital prints on Verona paper, each 12x12in, 30x30cm, 2023

BITCOIN FARM and portrait of Alain Thibault, curator of Infinites Variations

CHIP and candid portrait of Oli Sorenson

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