Following her artist residency at La Condition Publique, Amalia Laurent has created a suspended textile installation based on the notion of pattern and repetition.
Based on the perforated cards used for jacquart looms in the Roubaix textile industry in the 19th century, she explores this binary technique as the basis for the coloured pattern she applies by traditional hand-dyeing to a tarlatan fabric. Playing with transparency and opacity, she reveals space in a different way.
The exhibition highlights the work of plant colour artist Clément Bottier and the reappropriation of dyeing techniques by a group of young textile design students from ESAAT, the Roubaix School of Applied Arts and Textiles.
The rhythms resonate with the nuances, the geometry responds to the undulations, immersing us in a universe of magic and chemistry.
In this exhibition, Carolina Sepulveda, a Chilean artist and poet living in Lille, sees embroidery as an act of reparation and a return to her origins.
Inspired by the women in her family, she forges intimate links with her roots. Each thread she handles is an affirmation of the power of women and of healing through art.
To mark the opening of the exhibition, members of the Franco-Chilean association Cordillera will be performing a repertoire of Latin American music, from Mexico to Cape Horn, via the Caribbean islands, Colombia, Cuba and Peru (6.30-7pm).
The Cordillera music group is the artistic showcase of the eponymous association, which promotes the cultural richness of the Latin American continent and aims to share with as many people as possible a message of peace, solidarity and respect for human dignity.
