Description
Exhibitions and workshops as part of the Flax Festival:
Exhibition times: 10 am to 6:30 pm
- Exhibition Sónia ANICETO - Church Choir
Sonia ANICETO, a Brussels-based Portuguese artist, graduated in painting and tapestry from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. Her work explores the intersection between painting, drawing and textile art. TEIA is an evolving work in situ, an experiment that renews, transforms and transits, enabling her to think about new themes. "Conceived as a reflection on intergenerational links, this work has been evolving since 2017 with the contribution of my mother?s know-how."
TEIA unfolds in the form of a fragile yet powerful network, evoking a shifting, suspended, floating territory. Through this installation, the artist questions notions of connection, displacement and uprooting. At the same time, her drawings, paintings and free-motion quilts are part of the same approach.
Her landscapes, somewhere between the real and the imaginary, suggest a journey through territories, fantasized places, geographies tinged with affect
geographies tinged with affect. They invite us to multiply our worlds to make ours more welcoming.
- Performance around the work TEIA - Sunday, July 6, 4pm
Maria João FlÔxo is a multi-disciplinary Portuguese artist based in Brussels
from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto and Valencia. Maria João FlÔxo?s work and Sónia Aniceto?s TEIA explore the connections between body, space and memory. However, in each of Flôxo?s performances, these relationships evolve according to the context and concept being explored. Her body and voice intertwine with TEIA. Sometimes constrained by the net, her limited movements suggest both protection and confinement.
At other times, the body dialogues with the material, transforming and reinventing it. Space, as an extension of gesture, inscribes the memory of movement in time. While TEIA sketches a cartography of connection and uprooting, FlÔxo's performances reinterpret this framework, playing on the tensions between transformation and liberation.
Duration 30 minutes, free with exhibition ticket
- Exhibition Audrey CAVALLONI - Church - "Nature Rouge, variations
"Part textile surgeon, part spider weaver, I practice knotting and sewing techniques, using the suppleness and organic character of materials in a process of covering and proliferation.
The repetition of the plastic gesture is a positive action that enables me to overcome the feeling of confinement and expand. By pushing back my limits, I question form in perpetual evolution.
As part of the festival, I present the installation "Nature rouge, variations". Composed of knots and textile vines, one part on the ground and another more aerial, this installation questions ?human nature? Between anchorage and spiritual elevation, it invites the public to walk between ?Man-animal? and ?celestial being?"
- Workshop on the participative textile work "Pousse de nouages
Friday, July 4, 3 pm to 6 pm
pousse de nouages? refers to the growth of plants, to the movement of nature as it proliferates and expands, and to the main technique employed, that of knotting. It is a textile work created from knots sewn together
in the form of itinerant participatory workshops.
During a workshop, the work travels from place to place, town to town, hand to hand. It criss-crosses the region, developing and growing as it meets and participates.
Accessible free of charge with an exhibition ticket
- Performance reading of the dramatic poem "Chair coeur filant" by Audrey CAVALLONI - Sunday, July 6, 3pm at the church
Free with exhibition ticket
- Néotisse exhibition, salle St Roch,
Néotisse is a Montpellier-based association dedicated to cultural mediation and archaeological experimentation
around weaving and dyeing. We deal with data from the Neolithic to the end of Antiquity, considering linen in all its forms, from plant to garment.
- Ancient weavings workshop: a talk with three archaeologists on the secrets of the past
Sunday, July 6, 10am to 11am at salle St roch - FREE
This talk is given by a Neolithic weaving specialist, an Egyptian weaving specialist and an Egyptologist. The theme will be linen weaving, but also recent archaeological discoveries on weaving tools, linen weaving in Ancient Egypt and its associated vocabulary, clothing in the Middle Ages etc... all with tangible examples, bibliographical references and the chance to discuss the subject!
Duration: 1h with time for questions, no registration required
-Learn to make vegetable dyes - Friday, July 4, 10am to 6pm - workshop approx. every 1h30
This workshop will teach you how to make different vegetable dyes using hot or cold linen (depending on the weather). Participants can take home their own skein of dyed linen! The workshop will be preceded by an explanation and archaeological contextualization of plant dyes, their use since Neolithic times, and the changes that have taken place over time
over time.
Materials provided
Price: 25 euros for over-15s and 10 euros for 6-15s
Number of participants: 15
Duration: 1 hour, plus time to collect skeins at least 1 hour later - Salle St Roch
Registration: asso.neotisse@gmail.com
- Learn to spin and weave workshop - Saturday July 5, 10am to 6pm - workshop every 1h30 approx
This workshop will be divided into three parts: spinning with a spindle and cattail, making a linen mounting strip with an encroix comb, and weaving with linen on a vertical loom (Neolithic).
This workshop is accompanied by a mini-presentation on the history of linen and weaving from an archaeological perspective.
Materials supplied
Price: 25 euros for over-15s and 10 euros for 6-15s
Number of participants: 6
Duration: 1h30 - Salle St Roch
Registration: asso.neotisse@gmail.com
- Exhibition Beate FROMMELT and Carla HOHMEISTER "The fabric of our landscape" - La grange des Dîmes accessible on foot via Rue du Moulin
The inspiration for the artwork comes from historical imagery and architecture. The textile triptych shows details of representations and elements of the architecture of a monastery church. The work cites essential features of the Baroque period. In particular, the creation of an illusion of space, formal language, symmetry and color play an important role. The large-format cross-stitch creates an optical phenomenon: up close, the works resemble clouds of abstract pixels, and only at a distance do they merge into a single, realistic image. And, like Baroque architecture, they direct the eye upwards.
The choice of yarn as a material alludes to the historical importance of the textile industry in the region. Yarn itself is a "thing without property". It is only through its treatment that the material - interwoven like a texture - takes on its function. Thread, here in the form of cross-stitch, is condensed into an image only in the sum of its stitches.
The fabric of our landscape reflects the texture of the place, which is characterized by monastic tradition and the history of the textile industry.
- Clément ROSENBERG - Chapelle Sainte Marguerite
I'm a designer, decorator and teacher. My practice is based on the ennoblement and shaping of supple materials, conducive to the construction of settings that convey singular imaginations. Textiles are often the main production element, subject to shifts in conventional usage. My experimental approach places as much emphasis on the end goal as on the research process. I'm also keen to select a material, taking into account the way it is processed, in order to nurture narratives likely to raise questions about our ways of living.
For the Sainte-Marguerite chapel, I chose to make the most of the different shades of flax fibre and the co-products of the industry, as well as of the material itself
of the industry, as well as the site?s physiognomy and history, to design a flexible, decorative wall to match the space
of the space.
>Fares LINEN FESTIVAL
15 ? 3-day multi-site wristband (14? in advance on the online ticketing service until the day before the Festival and 15? on site (excluding the fashion show and visits to the Ronchay and Embrin weaving mills)
5? admission to one site only (exhibition)
Free admission for children under 12 and people with reduced mobility, excluding the parade and the Ronchay weaving and Embrin workshops.
Sites open from 10am to 6:30pm