Aurélie Mathigot

Represented by Maison Parisienne since 2011, Aurélie Mathigot is first and foremost a photographer. After graduating from the Beaux-Arts school of Aix-en-Provence, she pursued her work around images, seeking to give them a new depth, not through sound but through texture and material.

Her photographs are printed on canvas and embroidered in different places with machine embroidery, hand embroidery, thread, beadwork and crochet. Her work is a unique method of photo manipulation that adds volume, meaning, and sensuality – involving in particular the sense of touch.

If Aurélie Mathigot appropriates the language of embroidery, it’s because “it offers many possibilities – to make mistakes, to undo and unravel and redo, without ever altering the material.”

Textile is the perfect medium to explore ideas of collective artworks as it exists everywhere, anywhere. It’s a medium that calls for participation and transmission. A universal thread that connects all of humanity in a single web, in a weave that can be found in notions of text, textile, texture. “Textile is a universal medium, from clothes to shroud, we live in textile. I used to think that music was the one universal language, but it’s really textile.”

In 2012, she received the “Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris”. She has developed her research at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes, in Geneva and Rio or at the Centre National d’Arts Plastiques (CNAP Paris).

In 2021, her work Sans ta beauté je suis perdue joined the permanent collections of the MAD- Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. 

In 2022, the Manufacture des Gobelins acquired her work Fin de Journée en Automne to be reproduced as a tapestry, a project that is currently underway.