“I have been embroidery since the age of 5, but everything has changed the day my best friend slipped me, about my abécédaires:” It’s beautiful what you do, but what is boring! ” “, says Sandrine Torredemer. Today, the 57-year-old textile artist is distinguished by his unique style, his stunning mini-tables made with three ends of fabrics and well-chosen strands of thread. On his Instagram account opened in 2016 under the aka La Filature, his community of admirers has 91,000 followers to date, including journalist and writer Elisabeth Quin, fan of the first hour. Galleries in Perpignan, Lille, Arles or Paris also regularly exhibit its pieces which renew the art of miniature.
A little girl of a tailor on the maternal side, Sandrine Torredemer grew up in Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, and spent her vacation in twentyrau, cradle of the paternal family. In this village of the Corbières massif live the great-grandmother Corsière, the dear grandfather who takes him to mass and the grandmother, an atheist and communist, who initiated her with the needle works. “I loved embroidering with her so much. My mother was a seamstress but hated embroidery. She did not understand that I spend so much time on canvas, to follow models with flowers, birds, butterflies … “
The Catalan, who has never stopped handling the needle even at the height of her rock period – ” I crushed the names of my favorite groups, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, on my bag -, has been creating a very small corpus for ten years for ten years. Mainly malicious sentences, flowers embroidered on compresses gauze, as well as reproductions of paintings of painters which she likes, like Basquiat, Matisse or Hockney. And above all sketches according to clichés of photographers whom she appreciates or taken by herself, often at the Racou beach, in Argelès-sur-Mer.
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