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CHRISTELLE LACOMBE
Letter fiction
machine embroidery on canvas with blue thread cm. 23×17
Year 2023

Modular installation by Christelle

Barbara Pavan independent curator of contemporary fiber and textil art

Christelle Lacombe born in 1969 in Paris. Has worked for more than 30 years as an art therapist specializing in plastic art. Trainer and training manager in art therapy for more than 20 years in Paris. Her research focuses on the question of the function of language and its expression in the exploration of embroidery. Supported by a keen concern for the issues of the letter tied to the body.

Fictions of letters all play on the illegible, on the meaningless, on a form of writing that cannot be given meaning. The embroideries here are places of full ambiguity, allowing us to maintain an open question so that the letter plays its game, its fiction, its melody. The language flows with a blue thread from letter to letter but it is also worked by these cuts which the body of the text bears the mark.

The embroideries are places to respond to the encounter of an impossible to think, a space for the troubling relation to the foreigner of one's own language, a place to welcome the challenge of a word even when there is no has nothing left to say, a gap for the difficult task of saying and failing to say oneself.

It is what does not pass into the story, what resists conversion into words, what undoes its hypnotic capacity, thus opening up to each person the possibility of confronting their own power of ilreading, a paradoxical power of which J. Lacan emphasized the necessary preservation.

In the insistence of what returns and in the face of the dizzying lack of meaning, make room for what, repeated, is “nothing other than the impossible repetition” for S. Kierkegaard.

With words and sentences, drawing a space to accommodate what cannot be expressed in words. To attempt a bare textual embroidery that would give form to the formlessness of an insane experience, without compromising on the “nonsense that it is up to it to say”.

Spinning and cutting, acts which fertilize architectures, orders, bordering the difference from letter to letter. Break in the infernal chain of loops, in order to deal with the rational and logical discourse of knowledge. This is how the Logos manifests itself through the vacillations – errors – hesitations, blunders, stumbles, slips of the unconscious.

The very place where speech, although always lagging behind reality, succeeds in producing a rare and timid clarity to counter this blinding reality and to generate new geographies of Being.

© In performance at SCD STUDIO in Perugia until April 27.4.2024, XNUMX for LOGOS, an international collective dedicated to the word curated by Barbara Pavan.

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