Delphine Dénéréaz, an artist who is dusting off weaving and reinventing artistic embroidery

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While she uses a medieval technique on a loom, the young embroiderer creates her designs using a digital tool. In her own way, she tells stories on colorful tapestries.
We discovered her in Avignon at the end of 2023 at the Collection Lambert , where she was in residence. We find her at Chapelle XIV, in the 18th arrondissement in Paris. In this very quiet back-of-the-courtyard gallery, contrasting with the bustling La Chapelle district, Delphine Dénéréaz has installed her extravagant world as a visual artist and embroiderer, which can be discovered in an exhibition called "Bells, Spells & Love Chapels" until the end of July. On this day, she is leaving for Caen. The city, which is celebrating its millennium, commissioned a piece from her for its public space, "a cube stretched with canvases woven with ribbons bearing the image of a giant emoji that represents the house," she says before catching her train to Saint-Lazare station.
Full of energy, the 36-year-old woman rushes from one project to another, multiplies collaborations, fights to make known an "archaic" practice, relating both to the gesture of the hand, but also to digital technology...
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