“To focus, while allowing perception to wander and wonder.
To order and to structure, while letting natural chaos and imagination breathe.
To hold, while letting go, in order to fully achieve concrete and yet open messages.
Isabelle Tellié’s body of work favors and proves the coexistence of these double-sided factors,
merging the antithetical into a dynamic phenomenal whole.“
Born 1991 in Düsseldorf and currently based in Berlin, Isabelle Tellié is a French-German interdisciplinary artist. She studied at the Artez Institute of Arts in Arnhem (Netherlands), where, in 2015 she got a Bachelor degree in Fashion Design, graduating with honours. At Artez, Isabelle committed to a less conventional approach to design by integrating influences such as Bauhaus and Minimalism with ideas and forms that relate to the imaginative, the emotional sphere, and the intuitive response to the surrounding world.
Today Isabelle looks at sculpture in the same way she used to look at textiles: from an open-ended point of view to a place where she can allow herself to engage with ongoing dialogues and uncharted perspectives.
With her unique work and enticing personality, she invites our body-mind complexity to a journey that enhances the consciousness of the act of perception and of its possibilities. In 2016, Isabelle started dedicating to what she describes as “optical illusion art” - a playful and yet thought-provoking way to get to question our sense of reality. Later in her practice, Isabelle deepens her focus on duality and the symbiotic relationship between the piece and the viewer - or better, between the artistic work and the “inter-actor”. Under the spotlight are as well the duality of artificial order-disorder and natural organicity, rational language and instinctive emotion, trigger and reaction, logic and intuition.
Moreover, Isabelle’s work is more and more concerned with a deeper investigation of both personal and global mind structures. By building her own “tiny house”, for example, she intended to further motivate other people to rethink their own lifestyle with more awareness. Her work is as well an encouragement to live our lives with childlike heart, innocence and naivete, in order to be able daring and pursuing our personal goals and dreams.
PERSONAL WEBSITE - http://isabelletellie.de/
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