On Friday evenings, the Manufacture of the Fondation Cartier presents "Le cycle entremêlé", a cycle of workshops that invites participants to discover the art of intertwining and interweaving different materials by mobilising several techniques, sometimes ancestral, revived, displaced or transgressed by invited artists.
By borrowing and diverting the gestures of weaving, basketry or embroidery, the workshop offers the chance to take up steel wire, a material that is at once flexible, sturdy and stubborn. By hand, using pliers and a little force, one builds a weft, a kind of solid canvas on which to twist motifs, writings and forms, in order to invent new "travaux d'aiguille".
Clara Denidet is an artist and author. She lives and works in Burgundy. Her research unfolds in the field of visual arts through sculpture, installation, performative form and writing.