Cos 499-429 1983
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Fork, North Dakota, United-States — Felt, fabric, pigmented paper pulp, porcelain, pigments — Kimonos : H.150 to 175 x L. 80 to 95 x W. 5 cm / Porcelain fragments: H.5 to 10 x L. 20 to 50 x P. 15 to 30 cm.
Commentaire sur les Kimonos de Michelle Héon
(…) “its disturbing and dramatic spaces that are populated with kimo our uninhabited, but from which still emanate the mystical auras of the disappeared who left their movements inscribed in space and time. Like the "living pillars" of totems, these kimonos are connected to a past that encroaches on the present. (… ) Wandering for a while through a room cluttered with fragmented clothes, one cannot avoid thinking of the cults, myths, rituals that led someone to weave not clothes, but "coatings". "Coatings" which do not have the function of covering the body with tissues, but rather of covering it with an appearance.” (…)
© Suzanne Giroux 1983, excerpt from French text: Commentaires sur les Kimonos de Michelle Héon, Cahiers des arts visuels, n° 17, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.