[IRIS DROUET]
Mythweaver
Iris Drouet (Paris, 1990) is a textile artist working on the suffused bond between the archaic and abstraction. As art historian Lara Conte notes, Drouet’s research initiates with the archives of artists associated with the Bauhaus and extends to the reductionist painting movements of the 1960s, drawing inspiration from figures such as Agnes Martin and Mira Schendel. This process of documentation enables the artist to translate, rewrite, and transcribe various media—including text, photography, musical scores and architecture—into solid textile objects rooted in the raw materials she employs in her tapestries. In her compositions, linen, ramie, and antique fabric scraps contrast with plastics, lurex, raffia, and unusual objects; these elements draw the eye to the raw material and technique, creating a tension with the abstract, linear composition of her drawings.
Iris lives and works in Italy. Her practice is grounded in improvisation at the loom—which becomes an active working tool—where areas of resistance and the release of tension manifest in works that explore themes of the unconscious, the archive, and the archaic as expressions of inverted power.
This piece is a textile interpretation of the Fragments of Sappho, as quoted from Anne Carson’s translation If not, Winter
Over the black earth
Mythweaver
Do not move stones
Gather a child to its mother
Middle night, the hour goes by, alone I lie.
Like a mountain wind, falling (eros shook my mind) Two states of mind (I don't know what to do)
And if, nothing, more finely shaped.
ARTIST
Iris Drouet
MATERIALS
Linen, hemp and ramie
ORIGIN
Italy
DIMENSIONS
H 200 cm × W 80 cm (H 78.4 “ x W 31.5 “)
DATE
2024
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[IRIS DROUET]
Mythweaver
Iris Drouet (Paris, 1990) is a textile artist working on the suffused bond between the archaic and abstraction. As art historian Lara Conte notes, Drouet’s research initiates with the archives of artists associated with the Bauhaus and extends to the reductionist painting movements of the 1960s, drawing inspiration from figures such as Agnes Martin and Mira Schendel. This process of documentation enables the artist to translate, rewrite, and transcribe various media—including text, photography, musical scores and architecture—into solid textile objects rooted in the raw materials she employs in her tapestries. In her compositions, linen, ramie, and antique fabric scraps contrast with plastics, lurex, raffia, and unusual objects; these elements draw the eye to the raw material and technique, creating a tension with the abstract, linear composition of her drawings.
Iris lives and works in Italy. Her practice is grounded in improvisation at the loom—which becomes an active working tool—where areas of resistance and the release of tension manifest in works that explore themes of the unconscious, the archive, and the archaic as expressions of inverted power.
This piece is a textile interpretation of the Fragments of Sappho, as quoted from Anne Carson’s translation If not, Winter
Over the black earth
Mythweaver
Do not move stones
Gather a child to its mother
Middle night, the hour goes by, alone I lie.
Like a mountain wind, falling (eros shook my mind) Two states of mind (I don't know what to do)
And if, nothing, more finely shaped.
ARTIST
Iris Drouet
MATERIALS
Linen, hemp and ramie
ORIGIN
Italy
DIMENSIONS
H 200 cm × W 80 cm (H 78.4 “ x W 31.5 “)
DATE
2024
For inquiries and bespoke requests, please contact us.
