Estelle Garcia Blanco

Textile and feather artist, Estelle Garcia Blanco, combines installations and sculptural paintings. Her work explores the figure of the bird, both as a poetic image and as a symbol of ecological disaster. She focuses on feathers as a symbolic material, capturing the movement of life, bearing witness to the wild, and representing death. Her creations evoke what no longer exists but leaves behind a trace, a memory. Through her practice, she bridges the animal and human worlds, blending feathers and textiles to reveal the tension between these two realms.

Her works repurpose everyday objects — feathers from second-hand pillows, textile fragments — transforming them into witnesses of our time, where recycling becomes an act of memory and resistance. Feathers, delicately inserted or compressed, intertwine with the mineral shapes of plaster, questioning the boundaries between nature and artifice, between lightness and weight.

This work, both intimate and universal, invites reflection on how we inhabit the world and the memories we leave behind. It is an attempt to capture the ephemeral and to evoke the often-invisible traces that our actions imprint on the landscape.