Based in Picardy, France, Edith Meusnier uses braiding techniques to create flexible and transparent artworks in geometric shapes that both blend into and stand out from different landscapes.

Edith‘s art is based on braiding - an ancient technique in which complex patterns are created by interweaving three or more strands of flexible textile fibres - and on sprang, (braiding on taut threads) a Bronze Age braiding technique. The technique has been performed in many parts of the world for thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the present day, using silk, wool, linen and cotton.

Edith Meusnier‘s work reflects seasonal transformations and explores the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. 

„My forest environment feeds my imagination and envelops me daily.“

Edithe Meusnier

Festival " les Nouvelles Métamorphoses",  Jardin de l'orangerie,  La Mothe Saint Héray,  juin 2021

Edith Meusnier

Edith Meusnier‘s artworks are exposed to light, bad weather and all the influences of nature, dancing and vibrating in the light and the wind. They can be found in forests, castle parks, monasteries and museum courtyards.

„They vibrate in the light, expand in the wind in a succession of contradictory images.“

Edith Meusnier

Transformations

Edith Meusnier

THE INSPIRATION

The artist always finds her inspiration in the forest, with which she feels a deep connection. For her, the forest is the studio but also a shelter and an escape. Depending on the daylight and the weather, her work merges with the forest.

The artist‘s work is very fragile and she carefully chooses shapes and materials after calculating wind, sun and anchor points. Sometimes she leaves her work on site for years. Most of the time, however, she retrieves her artworks a few months later and gives them a new life by reshaping them. This is possible because the artworks consist of modules that can be transformed.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EDITH MEUSNIER‘S WORK

Edit Meusnier‘s contemporary interpretation of textile art is significant because she has created unique innovative artworks. Here, the artist questions the self-evident and certainties of nature, the play of opposites, natural-artificial, continuity-brittle, fragile-solid. 

She uses the concepts of flexibility and transformation to convey her vision of a world in constant evolution. When the artist works in public spaces, even if the installations are ephemeral, she wants to create a small change for people and it is very important to her to have an exchange about their expectations. 

Textile art, in her opinion, plays a very important role in contemporary art because it has the ability to sneak into the world of sculpture, architecture, but also dance, performance and street art. The artist likes the peaceful, subversive and humorous practices of „yarn bombing“ or „knit graffiti“ and hopes that anonymous groups will emerge all over the world to question urban life, fix its flaws or denounce the totalitarianism of video surveillance.

You can find more about this wonderful artist under:

www.edithmeusnier.fr