Embroidered works

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• Dourou

  During an exchange in educational solidarity in February 2007 at the school in Dourou, Mali, in the Dogon land, Denise Sabourin led an exchange between the young people from Mali and from France. She presented a work made up by the French students to the schoolteacher in Dourou, Madame Kone, who « appropriated » this initial work on March 8th (…)

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• Europe

  This work was made over a two-year period. It originated in the meeting of high school students for the Parliament of Young Europeans in La Rochelle in March 2002. Denise Sabourin asked the students to write in their hands what the term ’Europe’ meant to them. (…)

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• Sophie

  This work was conceived during a three-month friendly relationship with Sophie Calle. She lent her work "Los Angeles" to the art gallery at the Lycée Valin (high school) in La Rochelle.
  In 1987 she had asked 20 residents of Los Angeles the question "Where are your angels ?" In 2004 some students in La Rochelle asked her the double question "Où est l’ange amer ?", which means both "Where is the seamark-angel ?" and "Where is the bitter angel ?" (…)

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• André

  Considering his political commitment, André Cazetien could not leave out "men and bears". Originating from the Valley of Aspe in the Pyrenees, he opens up his heart, his conscience and his energy to a common struggle. (…)

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• Fang

  Fang‘s playful way of thinking allows her to question about all social values. She enjoys jolting the social codes and representations ; in the same way Shanghaï enjoys jolting the traditional Chinese values and be in a position « upstream from the sea ». Fang, as to her, is « upstream from the mother ». (…)

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• Jiong

  Jiong ZHU came to La Rochelle to put up her own photographic work. Her exhibition was named “More China”.
  As a response to this title, she offered to post the walls with what was to make up more France and more La Rochelle in July 2005 : (…)

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• Gao

  Gao’s wish is to share moments with other people.
  Christmas time is a choice period when collective occasions come round again.

  Father Christmas may have won the best of her heart (…)

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• Sui

  Travelling is his dream.
  To go as far as planes go.

  Sui wants to feel light both on the stage of the sky and on that of his life. (…)

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• Rachid

  This work was first devised during Rachid Koraïchi’s own exhibition at the Minime’s Galerie in January 2003. An Algerian graphic artist, Rachid laid his hand-written expression in the shape of his calligraphy on the coloured gauze made by Denise Sabourin. (…)

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• Gaëtan Picon

  The Gaëtan Picon conference was the occasion for a group of students to "appropriate" Denise Sabourin’s initial step in this work, which developed around Gaëtan Picon and his writing about ’Madame Moitessier’, the painting by Ingres. (…)

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