Fi Isidore | Firescreen

£1,000.00

FirescreenPoplar, Coyote bones, Resin, Lace and Oil Infused with Damiana, Hydrangea, Hyssop, Nettle, Ashwagandha, Rose bud, Red clover, Calendula, Thyme

80 x 40 x 30 cm

2022

£1,000 GBP

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This work transforms a Victorian garment pattern through furniture making techniques to construct an airy sculptural form that evokes mourning apparel. The form is upholstered in lace, using a milky white resin and coyote bones as fasteners. The wood is finished in a homemade oil infused with herbs for fertility and seduction. The piece is part of body of sculptures and furniture works completed in 2022 which weaves symbolic methods of medieval and Victorian furniture ornamentation and with techniques borrowed from furniture making and generational craft. The sculptures are vessels for secrets, and sometimes love charms, dedicated to secret systems of knowledge and spell casting spoken through adornment.

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Fi Isidore is an artist and woodworker from New York City. With a background in traditional furniture making and choreography, Isidore’s art objects draw on a rich trove of references and traditions, from corsetry and Shaker joinery to Graham dance technique and club culture. She approaches woodworking as an act of ‘costuming,’ assembling outfits of bone and lace, raw denim and strands of her friends’ hair. The works are adorned with meticulously labored surfaces rendered through historical craft techniques such as marquetry, inlay, relief carving, and upholstery. Craft is (mis)used as a means of staging and styling — teasing out a theatrics and performative quality from within the sculptural forms. Design becomes a means of dressing and undressing space that is rooted in a vividly sensual materiality. Existing somewhere between furniture, backstages, and garment archives, Isidore’s works invoke the spaces and feelings that exist in and around performance.
Her first solo exhibition, Pomegranate Carved In The Round, opened at Larrie NY in 2022. She has participated in group shows such as Haute References (Gnossienne Gallery, London, 2024), Either a Rapture or an Existential Risk (Deli Gallery, CDMX, 2023), Salon ACME (CDMX, 2023), and 27 Orchard (Larrie, NY, 2022) and residencies including the Tajo-Saenger Residency (CDMX, 2023) and The Lab Program (CDMX 2019). She is currently studying the MFA Fine Arts at Goldsmiths University in London.