Beyond traditional wall hangings, such as the works of Mario Prassinos or Michel Tourlière, textile art encompasses the third dimension with works by Daniel Graffin, Ziane Lerminiaux-Forest, but also the relationship to structure, material, texture, architecture, or what we would call today "installation" thus demonstrating a very wide range of different techniques and materials used: ropes, cotton, acetate, terracotta... through the works of Edward Baran, Cécile Brocard, César, Roland-Jacques Galice, Jeanne Gerardin, Daniel Graffin, Jacqueline Guillermain, Ziane Lerminiaux-Forest, Marie Molinier, Michel Tourlière, Robert Wogensky...
In addition to this historical collection of textiles, works acquired more recently from contemporary visual artists using fabric or thread are also presented, including Louis Cane, Claude Garanjoud, Carolle Bénitah, Corinne De Battista, Edith Laplane, etc.
Work presented for Corinne de Battista
"The sauceboat" (sauceboat, satin and pearls), it is part of a series of everyday objects, initially from my family heritage (objects, photographs, household linen, furniture and various accessories), then in a second approach they can be recovered, found or collected in different places. "Inanimate objects, do you therefore have a soul?", asked the poet Alphonse de Lamartine. It is the idea that we project positive or negative personal meanings onto certain everyday objects. All these objects, materials or photographs constitute a "raw material". This material will trigger an idea, generate a transformation, to finally materialize in a work or an installation that will give the viewer some keys, without totally and explicitly revealing the content.
Works presented for Edith Laplane
The embroidered karyotypes of Louis and Lucretia are the works acquired by the Musée des Tapisseries and presented in this exhibition.
In Aix en Provence, in the 17th century, Louis de Mercoeur, Duke of Vendôme, and Lucrèce de Forbin-Sollièse love each other, both widowed, they cannot however unite. Louis XIV, cousin of Louis de Mercoeur refuses because Lucrèce is not of royal blood. The king makes him cardinal to support his ban. The Pavillon de Vendôme is built to shelter their loves.
Royalty appears here as a kind of genetic anomaly which will prevent a man from flourishing.
His coat of arms has 3 fleurs-de-lis, which is why I embroidered them on his karyotype (map of genes/chromosomes that govern each person's genetic characteristics)
