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Accostage by Sophie Cardin, a giant anchor made out of cardboard

Artist Sophie Cardin has created an art installation made entirely from cardboard for this year's Art Souterrain Festival in Montreal, Canada.

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Via Creative Boom submission. All images courtesy of the artist

Via Creative Boom submission. All images courtesy of the artist

The monumental anchor, which is installed in the Guy Favreau complex, is a reference to the contradiction between an anchor’s heavyweight and this anchor’s light and fragile cardboard composition. The piece "expresses how this is felt like a necessity by immigrating people, while also exploring the instability and the transitory conditions they experience".

French-born artist Cardin, who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rennes, is now based in Montreal and specialises in installation, sculpture and performances. Her works have been exhibited in France, Belgium and Russia.

Large cardboard anchor sculpture towering in an urban courtyard, with modern buildings visible in the background and people walking nearby
A towering cardboard anchor sculpture snakes through an atrium space as visitors walk around it in the Guy Favreau complex in Montreal
Large cardboard anchor sculpture installed in an urban interior space with brick walls and windows above
White cardboard anchor sculpture winding through an underground corridor, lit by overhead fixtures with brick walls and potted plant visible in background
Giant cardboard anchor sculpture by Sophie Cardin with interlocking curved segments displayed indoors next to a wall diagram
A large cardboard anchor sculpture twists and curves across a gallery floor in an art installation
Brown cardboard anchor installation suspended in a yellow-lit underground corridor with geometric floor tiles and ceiling lines
Brown and white cardboard anchor sculpture suspended in a yellow-lit underground corridor with dark tiled flooring
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