Artistic approach

Laurine embroiders directly onto the clothes she sews.
Stitch by stitch, bead by bead, embroidery becomes a gesture of reappropriation of the body and symbolic repair. Clothing is not just ornamentation: it is a place where identity is negotiated, revealed, and perceived. It indicates social, cultural, religious, or gender affiliations, while sometimes assigning hierarchical or discriminatory functions, whether endured or claimed. Textiles thus impose themselves as an additional layer of reality, palpable yet covered by the invisible within us. This layer becomes a projection screen for new images, whether painted, woven, or embroidered.
Textiles, and more specifically costumes, act as an interface between oneself and the world: they give a role, a voice, a function. They allow us to temporarily become the person we choose to embody.Her research focuses on processional second skins: textiles worn or installed, which embody intimate and collective narratives. She considers costume as a ritual device capable of creating social bonds and producing a plural reality. Embroidery contributes to the construction of these symbolic communities, making memories, anger, and hidden stories visible where words fail. Within all these repressed narratives, Laurine weaves a connection: pagan myths erased by Christianity, embroidery discredited by patriarchy, and the demands of marginalized societies crushed and violated by capitalism. She wants to contribute to the emergence of contemporary rituals where textiles become a shared language, capable of transforming vulnerability into collective strength.

“I imagine loud, colorful, oversized textiles rebelling, occupying public space like a symbolic herd, drawing on the folklore of a deconstructed temporality, a return from the past to the present, a temporality conceived not as linearity but as a series of nodes.”

Artist’s biography

After attending high school specializing in applied arts, Laurine took her first course in animation drawing at the DMA in Roubaix, which later led her to enroll at EMCA in Angoulême. It was only after school that she returned to embroidery. She sketches and paints to find a form of expression, and the figures become imbued with her emotions and come to life under the embroidery threads. In 2025, she further developed her skills with training in Lunéville crochet with Soline du Puy and obtained her CAP Broderie d’Art (vocational training certificate in embroidery art). She perfected her jewelry and textiles, establishing both as an additional layer of reality, palpable yet covered by the invisible within us.

Partners

The residency is supported by the Seine-Eure metropolitan area and Eure Department.