The exhibition “Fils et filiations” embroidered human stories at the Paris Workshop Gallery

“From birth to death, textiles accompanies us”. It is by these words that the exhibition commissioner, Audrey Demarre, closes the visit. If textiles accompany women and men throughout their lives, it becomes an object of choice of reflection and creation. The work of sixteen creators is thus gathered at the Galerie des Étiers de Paris since March 27 and until May 28, 2025, within the exhibition “Son et filiations”.

Textiles, link between creation and feelings

On the entire ground floor of the gallery, the works are installed above a mosaic dedicated to the Couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier. The blue of this celestial vault resonates with the electric blue shade of a sculpted piece of the Parisian workshop Font & Romani, hung on a wooden structure by beige threads. By his side, the work “Le field” (2024) of Metal Sanzay transcribes the atmosphere of the cemetery where the artist’s grandmothers were buried a few months ago, and consists of two black and white shots and two pieces woven in brown and orange tones.

Sandrine Torredemer, who calls herself the spinning, also questions her feelings, in a different way. Through three pieces, the artist embroiders Mediterranean sea or pool landscapes, creating textile patchworks. The spinning mill uses pieces of hospital charlottes and a base of shirt pieces from his former companion and his current companion, and thus weaves a link between embroidery, memories and sentimental career.

Hair, witnesses of life

Faced with the pieces of Sandrine Torredemer are those of Antonin Mongin, who presents five monochromes, mixtures of hair and hemp. This work is an order placed by a family, whose mother has kept her hair cut throughout her life. The five objects, of different colors, represent the different periods of women’s life.

The artist Laura Sánchez Filmeno also uses the hair, which she treats to make it damaged in her series “Atlas”. She then has them on old cards, and embroidered them on borders. The hair is the witness of the life of his wearer and is marked by the trials he goes through. Here, the use of hair of different people is blowing a message on diversity and questioning of borders.

An extension to the Violette Leduc media library

The exhibition “Fils et filiations” also hosts the sea glass of Aurélie Leblanc and Lucile Viaud, created from oyster shells; Solenne Jolivet, virtuoso of the sculpture of son; Or Aurélie Mathigot and her series “I love getting lost”, embroidery on blurred photographs which give them a new dimension, and whose pictorial aspect seems to prevent visitors from appropriating them by touch. Free, the exhibition presents an extension to the Violette Leduc media library in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, with a selection Artisan works weaves Hanako Stubbe.

Paris Workshop Gallery
30 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Paris 12th