Petals

Fanny Allié’s mixed media and textile-based works are influenced and directed by refuse: the lost and overlooked elements of daily life that give insight into the human experience and the precarious and intertwined narratives that link us to each other in our daily life. Acting as a modern-day scavenger of her own refuse and that of others, Allié explores the connection between these rejected objects and the body that engaged with it, considering humans’ relationship to the world around us through our abandoned materials, while shedding light on the environmental and societal consequences of our throw-away culture. Through her work, Allié finds narratives and connections from the remnants and discarded objects of daily life. Giving voice to the human experiences and traces embedded within these materials, she elevates them as relics of ephemerality, memory, passage and loss. These interwoven stories are born from deeply personal and broadly collective experiences, shared mythologies an