ARTWORK
Cartographies de l’Invisible #13
2026
183 x 88 cm
Hand weaving · natural fibres · plant-based dyes
Unique work
about the artwork
In Cartographies de l’Invisible #13, two distinct surfaces form a single work. Their separation remains visible, but certain lines and threads continue their trajectory from one element to the other.
The interval is therefore neither erased nor simply left empty. It becomes part of the composition: the two parts remain autonomous while being materially caught within a continuity that crosses their boundary.
This relation is not represented by a motif. It exists in the very structure of the work, in the threads that leave one surface, cross the space between the two elements and join the other.
The separation remains real, without producing two isolated forms.
MATERIALS & TECHNIQUES
what the work is made of
FIBRES
Wools
Mérinos d’Arles — Bouches-du-Rhône · Brigasque — Alpes-Maritimes · Local wool known as “Corde de moine” — kept for around twenty years by a friend in a cellar in Eygalières before being passed on to me
Cottons
Khadi — Bihar, India; hand-spun · Recycled cotton · Pakucho — Peru; native naturally coloured variety, undyed
Silks
Naturally copper-coloured Eri · Tassar · Recycled silk · Ghicha
Other plant fibres
Bamboo · Nettle · Hemp · Flax · Banana fibre
Foraged wild plants
Reed · Wild sorrel · Rush
Materials may be used in different states — raw, carded, spun, plied, felted or woven — according to their properties and what they make possible within the work.
colours / dyes
Onion · Madder · Indigo · Japanese pagoda tree · Eucalyptus · Helichrysum · Polypore · Pokeweed · Cosmos · Lemon · Artichoke
The dyes are made from plants, fungi, soils and other gathered, recycled or cultivated materials, without commercially produced mineral or metal mordants. Dye baths are used to exhaustion, and residues are composted whenever their nature allows it.
techniques
Hand spinning on a spinning wheel · Natural dyeing · Hand weaving on a rigid-heddle loom · Incorporation of raw fibres and plant materials · Mounting on a stretcher · Framing and woodworking
frame
Ash · Wood from sustainably managed French forests and worked in the Gard. Pine stretcher
history of the work
What is unique to this work
process
The work is constructed from two distinct elements. During the weaving process, certain threads were extended so that they could leave the surface of one panel, cross the interval separating it from the other and join the second part.
The void between the two elements thus remains fully present. Continuity does not consist in making this separation disappear, but in allowing matter to cross it.
The two surfaces can remain distinct while participating in the same structure.
exhibitions & awards
Oh My Laine! — Paris Design Week
Galerie Joseph, Paris · 2026
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