La filature

Sandrine Torredemer, alias La Filature, has been embroidering since childhood. Her great-grandmother, a corset maker in a small village in the Corbières, passed on to her the art of cross-stitching, Richelieu or thrown, as well as her love for this repetitive gesture that allows the soul to meditate. In her first life as a lawyer reconverted into a public works engineer, she embroidered sheets, tablecloths and towels in the rules of the art before unleashing her practice about ten years ago. Emancipating herself from academic stitches, she reproduces images that inspire her, such as the Toulon swimming pool of the 1970s which constitutes her first embroidered landscape. Seashores - one of her specialties - but also migrant camps, dance scenes from the film "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort". Her textile paintings distort reality and highlight the graffiti of Jean-Michel Basquiat and the interior and exterior landscapes of David Hockney. Sandrine Torredemer draws scenes that look like they are about to come to life. On old fabrics and patched sheets, she also embroiders sentences seized on the fly or invented, which reveal her joyful and offbeat universe.

"These are encounters of the heart, when I focus on their works, I feel like I am with them, I can spend a month, two months on a painting. At a rate of two hours at nightfall, this lawyer converted into a public works engineer, embroiders, cuts, sews in his workshop or in his house, as an exercise in meditation: "Embroidery is my oxygen".