Discover the unique hand-embroidered textile paintings of Italian artist Barbara d'Antuono at the Galerie Claire Corcia.
One of her works is currently on display at the Musée du Quai Branly in the "Zombis" exhibition in Paris.
"I sew like some people recite mantras. I don't decide anything in advance. Images emerge, without any particular coherence with each other, but they are there and I feel an urgency to give them body. Sewing, suturing, closing these wounds, grafting one fabric onto another, but also "embroidering" to give meaning, to sometimes testify to my deep desire to bring together the two cultures that inhabit me. Human fabric, psychic fabric, where the back and forth movements of the needle dig holes/voids through which my demons escape. Damaged, torn fabrics... and my attempts to join the edges that are hollowed out by this gap that never ceases to open: the fault of being... hemostasis impossible in all cases" writes Barbara d'Antuono.
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