Discover the contemporary work of Geneviève ADEUX VERRIER

Trained upholsterer, textiles are my world and my support. Stitched art is flexible, fragile. Learn to working the material, leaving it supple and respecting its vibrations its flexibility and its drapes are part of my job. 

Tools are also an essential component of my technique. Do not choose but use both the side of the mechanics of a machine sew that take the time to meditate with embroidery. by hand, is proof that time has installed itself. automations. Each gesture is natural, serving an emotion. This is the first subject: letting what is important to me speak, without obeying but being true.

Working in the workshop of the textile artist Els Van Baarle, exchanging with Fanny Violet, sharing embroideries with the English artists Jean Beaney and Jane Littlejohn have forged my choices, and allowed me to deepen my techniques. Textiles have become a language, far from the practical concerns that they previously had. through my job. The discovery of sewn arts is eye-opening. I dived in this sensitive world in order to be able to talk about my important subjects at home. through embroidery stitches and color.

Transmission is an important aspect. I taught textile art for more than 30 years through different techniques. To teach is to learn for oneself: there is nothing like sharing one's knowledge to verify one's own knowledge. Fidelity of students demanded of me, to renew myself, to continue my own path in order to continually bring them knowledge, to constantly search.

Textile is life! Matter is essential since it has always been found throughout the world. It covers many different patterns, materials, shapes but at the beginning, it represents us. First contact with our birth, it will also accompany us until the big departure from the end of our road. Heritage in notarial deeds, it has become commonplace with globalization until now. become one of the biggest pollutants on our planet.

I am touched by the quality of this product. old sheets. Their story speaks to me, the wear and tear that I play with, the marks are so many testimonies of previous lives. This is what will guide my choice of surface area. to work. Long before we talked about recycling, textile producers reused materials. It is in this current that I subscribe to following Louise Bourgeois who said "If we cannot abandon the past, we must recreate it. "

Transmission is an important part of my approach. Textiles have often been aside paths to art schools. The transmission was made through orally, through mother/daughter, passionate/curious relationships... This is one of the aspects that moves me in this practice. This empirical knowledge is however recognized all over the world, having given an identity à many cultures, civilizations. Standardization erases the different identities and yet, we are still seduced by the clothes of the Mongs, the colors of the Indians, the superpositions in Peru, the embroideries of Mexico, the colors of Japan... In each of my embroideries, I think of; all these women (mainly!) who express themselves out loud. through these gestures.

I want in my work to also talk about the fragility of life. of our spaces. May we reserve some spaces on our planets for ourselves. our children, so that they too have a piece of land that illuminates their lives and those of their children!!! Let's take care, we are just one link in a chain...