13-14sp MEGALITH IV, V cotton, slate base, 2001 34.5” x 9” x 8” 88 x 23 x 20 cm 35.5”x 10” x 10” 90 x 25 x 25 cm $4,400 each

Selected permanent collections and exhibition venues: Textile Museum, Ventron. France (solo exhibition); Cultural Center of Textile Art, Angers, France; Textile Museum of the Netherlands, Tilburg; Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland; Kunsindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway; Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Fiberart International); Lausanne, Switzerland (13th International Biennial of Tapestry); Savaria Museum, Szombathely, Hungary (7th and 9th International Biennials of Miniature Textiles); Lodz, Poland; (8th, 11th International Triennials of Tapestry) Kyoto, Japan (3rd International Textile Competition). Recipient: 1st Prize, International Triennial of Tapestry; 2nd Prize, Fiberart International; First Prize, Biennial Women in Textile Art, Miami, Florida.

29sp Detail SOLEIL D'HIVER

Statement: The fold is the motion. The eye can follow the paths taken by the sheath as the cloth meanders and winds about. The fold is the shape of memory itself. It narrates what is happening. It tells what took place here and there. The fold is not an image, it is an act. In this multiplication of folds and these gestures repeated again and again lies the memory of motion. Whether the folds are tight or loose, regular or irregular, the technique of folding implies compressing, tightening, and bending the material upon itself. Depending upon the style of fold, the results look different: scenes of rocky landscapes with faults running through; effects of clusters of dapples; simulacra of foam or froth; impressions of fossils.                                Simone Pheulpin

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