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Framed Utopia | Pressing in Art & Wall Decor by Valérie Hallier. Item composed of canvas and synthetic
Framed Utopia | Pressing in Art & Wall Decor by Valérie Hallier. Item composed of canvas and synthetic
Framed Utopia | Pressing in Art & Wall Decor by Valérie Hallier. Item composed of canvas and synthetic
Framed Utopia | Pressing in Art & Wall Decor by Valérie Hallier. Item composed of canvas and synthetic

Created and Sold by Valérie Hallier

Valérie Hallier

Framed Utopia - Art & Wall Decor

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Woman Owned

Sustainable

Made In USA

Natural Materials

Locally Sourced

DimensionsWeight
60H x 50W x 10D in
152.4H x 127W x 25.4D cm
14.51 kg
32 lb

Pressed flower petals on canvas, recycled packaging, plaster cloth, acrylic, polyurethane varnish
2022
H: 60" x W: 50" x D: 10”
Large mixed-media wall piece with a 3 dimensional frame. The canvas and the frame are covered with flower petals creating a colorful abstract composition. Made of discarded plastic cups and recycled packagings, the frame connects the baroque exuberance with the results of capitalism as a culture of waste. The delicate nature and fragility of the flower petals contrasts with the rough edges of the recycled objects, usually discarded as trash. What was discarded become ornament and the flower petal’s patterns, usually use as ornaments themselves, become the subject of the piece. These displacements put forth the obsolete notion of nature versus culture.

Item Framed Utopia
Created by Valérie Hallier
As seen in Creator's Studio, New York, NY
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Valérie Hallier
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2022
Using real flower petals, my work questions our disconnection with the natural world. We are nature.

Born in France, Valérie Hallier came to NYC with a Fulbright Scholarship and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in Computer Arts. Her early multimedia work received prizes at ACM Siggraph, SCAN Arts Symposium (PA), Ars Electronica in Finland and Anima Mundi in Brazil. Most recently Hallier was the recipient of a Contemporary Art Foundation grant and a MAAF (NYSCA & WaveFarm) grant. Her work has been shown internationally at NARS Foundation, A.I.R. gallery, BAC, BRIC, LMCC Arts Center, SOMArts (CA), the ESAM (France), Liverpool Independent Biennial (UK)… Valerie worked on public art commissions for the Drawing Center and LMCC (NYC) and was chosen for the first BRIC Biennial in Brooklyn in 2014. Artist residencies include Pioneer Works, NARS, Trestle, Harvestworks, LMCC arts Center on Governors Island and currently, 4Heads Portal AIR.