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Study days "Weave/Create: Reinventing Textile Art from 1945 to the Present" - Tuesday, 9 December 2025

9 December 2025

Organized by the Bourdelle museum and the Polish Institute in Paris during the exhibition "Magdalena Abakanowicz. The Thread of Existence", these study days aim to examine the emergence, from 1945 onwards, of a European and international art scene that sought to give form to fabric.

The Textile Revival of the 1970s

Chair: Małgorzata Maria Grąbczewska

9:30 AM

Introduction

Tapestry and transformation: reframing the origins of the New Tapestry in Poland
Sandra Imko, Lausanne University, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

10:00 AM

Couture-peinture, anti-broderie et autres déviations textiles dans les années 1970 en France
Fabienne Dumont, Professor of Contemporary Art History at Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne

11:00 AM

« Effilocher l’ordre établi » : pratiques textiles et féministes dans les expositions du groupe Dialogue (1976-1977)
Franny Tachon, art historian and exhibition curator

11:30 AM

Maille, mollesse et monumentalité : les sculptures-textiles de Raymonde Arcier
Marie-Dominique Gil, curator at the Musée des Plans-reliefs, Paris

12:00 AM

Discussion

Cultural Identities

Chair: Natalia Barbarska

14:00 PM

Doris Salcedo: Art, Politics, Acts of Mourning and Textile
Eleonora Jedlińska, art historian, lecturer at the University of Łódź

14:30 PM

Tissage et mémoire collective dans l’œuvre de Teresa Lanceta
Jean-Roch Dumont Saint Priest, curator, Director of the Musée d'art Moderne de Céret

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15:00 PM

Discussion and break

15:30 PM

The fabric of in-between: Tadek Beutlich and the search for identity through textile
Magdalena Wichtowska, PhD candidate at the Polish Institute of World Art Studies (Warsaw), translator and interpreter