Annie Bugnon

Annie Bugnon presents pieces that pay tribute to the work of embroiders, knitters, weavers, and lacemakers of times past. Their movements are reused and reinvented by the creator who collects, washes, irons and patiently unpicks clothes, cushions, covers, and bags of fabric from all over the world that were cast aside. She sometimes includes works using Egyptian paste from her ceramics research. By recycling these forgotten treasures that have fallen from grace, the artist feels as if she is honouring the memory of these discrete yet sovereign women and the humble and unimaginable patience of their bright creations. The exhibited pieces are a pretext to pay tribute to the forgotten works of our ancestors from across the globe: embroidery, weaving, lace and knitting. Full of inventiveness and prepared for festivities, their hands overlapped and interwove, unlikely yet enjoyable meetings took place between the Orient and the Occident, the North and the South, highlighting the same element, their destiny as women. Annie Bugnon collects and assembles their pieces of fabric to depict the symbolic world that our ancestors lived in. Her work focuses on ethnic communal festivities which represent the essential moments in life: birth, initiation, marriage, seasonal ceremonies, and burial rites.