Being a woman artist textile in the 90s...

During all these years, I never stopped creating in my studio, I constantly put the work back on the loom and exhibited in different places.

I had to live, practice different jobs, raise my daughter. Even if my professional life could not always take place in art, I know today that it is these various experiences that have allowed me to become the artist that I am. My management at the Filature du Mazel, in particular, has given me versatility in the design and implementation of artistic and cultural projects with a multiplicity of partnerships, at the service of the territories and their inhabitants. es. My travels, finally, have made me an ethnologist of life and it is in this way that I approach my creative work in the search for know-how and human encounters.

At the beginning of my career, textile art was not considered an art and for a long time its legitimacy was contested.

I was carried by the story of these female artists of the Bauhaus - Anni Albers, Marli Ehrman, Gunta Stölzl - who will study the history of weaving, use new materials, weave as many pictorial works as create ultra-technical pieces that mix engineering, design and art. Anni Albers will notably create a fabric capable of reflecting light and absorbing sound. These women artists will together rethink all the functionalities of weaving and make textile an artistic discipline as noble as the others.

And then, there is Sheila Hicks, Marinette Cueco, Simone Peulpin and the others…

In the 90s, being a female artist in a textile practice reduced us to a feminine genre of minor expression. It is only recently that textile art has finally been recognized as an art, despite its technicality, its craftsmanship and its link with industry. An art where the machine (the loom) is the vector for the creation of a work.

Hella Jongerius praised it in her exhibition Entrelac, une recherche woven. In this exhibition, the notion of weaving was approached not only as a craft with a long tradition, but also as a technical, thematic and critical investigation: a vector of cultural innovation.

PROFESSIONAL AND ARTISTIC 

CAREER

1990/2024
Visual artist in contemporary textile art.
2022/24
Production manager for the association Tisseuse de liens
2021
Creation of the association Tisseuse de liens, exhibition curator, implementation of a territorial project in Occitanie and exhibition programming in the field of contemporary textiles.
2011/21
Director of the Filature du Mazel, artistic and cultural factory, places of residence and third places, Valleraugue (30)
1999/2001
Speaker at the ENAD d’Aubusson (National School of Decorative Art). Introduction to the Ikat technique » for DNAT Textile
1997/98
Obtained the Fiacre Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, learned the Ikat technique in a government workshop « The Weaver’s Service Center », Hyderabad (India) and trained at the Ateliers Pinton on the Aubusson dyeing technique
1994/95
Study, within a family of weavers, of the Ikat technique in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (India)
1990/91
Work in collaboration with the National Institutes of Design school. Embroidery, printing, ligatures in Ahmedabad Gujarat (India)
1988/90
Sampling for industry

EXHIBITIONS

2024 /
- Workshop at the Panacée in Montpellier as part of the exhibition "Etre Méditerranée"
- Textile workshop at the Musée d'art contemporain de Céret as part of the textile exhibition by Teresa Lanceta
- Realization of the collaborative art project with the inhabitants of the city of Frontignan "Flags for my city", over 3 years.
2022/23
- “From the mountains to the sea” at the Théâtre de l’Albarède in Ganges (34)
- “Along the reliefs” at the Musée de la soie in Saint Hippolyte du fort (30)
- Realization of the collaborative art project with the inhabitants of the Ile de Thau – Sète “Flags for my neighborhood”, exhibition at the CRAC Occitanie in Sète
2015 /
Exhibition at the Satakine temporary gallery in Ganges (34)
2014 /
Exhibition at the Jardin médiévale in Uzes (30)
2009/13
Exhibition as part of the “Visual artists in transhumance” route in the territory of the Causses Aigoual Cévennes community of communes
2007/08
Themed exhibitions organized by EV’ART, “la Scierie” gallery, Mimi’s file in Montpellier
2007/06
Exhibitions at the Jardin des Sambucs Le Villaret (30)
2003
Exhibition at the Musée de l’Impression sur Etoffes in Mulhouse (68)
2002
Exhibition as part of the days of artistic crafts in Sauve (30)
1995
Exhibition at the “Espace Gard” in Nîmes

EXHIBITIONS CURATOR

2022/23
Curator of the exhibitions “Aux bords des paysages” for the community of communes of the Grand Pic Saint Loup for 11 monumental works in the landscape
2018/21
Creation and curatorship of the Land Art trail “Les balcons de l’Aigoual” in the heart of the Cévennes National Park for 16 monumental works
2018
Renouwellement, installation of two monumental works made in residence at the Well factory in Vigan (30) from the waste stockings and threads from the factory.

TRAINING

2022
Production, management of works and exhibitions at the Beaux Arts de Nîmes
2020
Bachelor's degree in "Mediation professions through artistic and cultural approaches", Aix Marseille University
2014
Administration of cultural production and dissemination - ARDEC Montpellier
1985/87
Evening classes at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré (Paris), BTS textile and printing section
1982/84
Atelier National d'Art Textile de Paris (ENSI)
1981/82
Weaving on a Jacquard loom at the Ecole Supérieure des Industries Textiles Diderot in Lyon.