Justine Cow

In the beginning, there is a large house, a beautiful sibling group, a huge vegetable garden, a hut, a forest, games, and no television. Justine and Cow grew up in the Val d’Argent, in Lièpvre, at Bois l’Abbesse.After training as a crystal cutter (Baccarat), Justine became known in the valley for her wood paintings. It was upon leaving the valley that textiles entered her work.Like a need to draw in volume, to mend the inert, to bring it back to life.From stitch to stitch, from wire to driftwood, from abandoned toys to broken necklaces, inspired by the encounter with a damask, a cotton fabric, a color, or a curve, she sculpts, she assembles, she embroiders, and she explores.The universe of Justine & Cow is sometimes unsettling but often gentle.

EXHIBITION

At the end of the thread, let's play!

Town

Lièpvre

Year

2024

Justine & Cow deconstructs and misappropriates objects, including her own creations. The materials used in Justine’s work are recycled, as if to say that everything is still possible. That other cycles are coming. Promising, that nothing is so serious. Justine mends the past, the sensitive, the intimate. She gives a new status to the works of ladies who are far too well-behaved (the ladies and the works!). Her works conceal tea towels and napkins, and the doilies are partly un-embroidered and re-embroidered according to her desires and the worlds she creates. Yet there’s no moralizing, no impoverishing thesis to be found in her work, one of whose essential characteristics, like a mainspring of life, is humor.