Rita Arimont joined Le “S” Grand Atelier in 2001 and gradually developed a strong interest in textiles and reclaimed materials. She began experimenting with the wrapping of found objects, containers, and miscellaneous materials gathered from the apparent disorder of the workshop.
Little by little, all readability disappears: it becomes impossible to know what lies concealed beneath the adhesive papers, tracing paper, ropes, and wool, or beneath the accumulating layers of cellophane, vinyl, polystyrene, and cardboard.
The viewer’s gaze is then drawn to a boot—probably made of rubber originally—gradually smothered under stickers and adhesive tapes, before being tightly bound with string and raffia.
Through this gesture, Arimont seems to suspend a form of memory within matter itself.