A choice of work from Swiss artist Xénia Lucie Laffely. At present primarily based between Lausanne and Montreal, Laffely holds a BFA and an MFA in textile design from the Haute École d’artwork et de design (Geneva). Her fleshy textile items playfully interrogate points associated to digital tradition, self-importance, home house, failure, consumerism, and lesbian love. Integrating snapshots and recollections from her personal each day life, Laffely’s work is infused with a way of familiarity that’s each sentimental and unsettling. Her newest physique of labor, for instance, explores themes of melancholy and nervousness via Summery imagery of swimming swimming pools and tanned our bodies — scenes of on a regular basis life tinged with surreal parts “like glimpses of nightmares.” The same commingling and complexity happens throughout the creation course of itself:
“I dedicate deep contemplation to the making, merging trendy digital methods with conventional craftsmanship to disrupt sexist stereotypes related to textile artwork. By way of a particular course of, I begin by creating figurative digital work, patching collectively photographs from private and popular culture sources, that I print onto varied textiles. By way of patchwork, layering, embroidering and quilting, the items spotlight the richness of a material-led method to textiles.”
See extra from Xénia Lucie Laffely under!