Artists

Geneviève Levivier

Press release

With profound materiality, Geneviève Levivier’s ritualistic process involves both collecting and creating, making works at the nexus of body and spirit, Nature and Self. By collecting plants, recycled textiles, remnants of natural fibers, and pages of classic texts from her family's library, among other discoveries that call out to her, she births a story beyond the physical materials in the image of the interconnected and dynamic "Self" of psychoanalysis. Using organic and textile materials, as well as the recurring motif of tree bark, which she photographs and abstracts in her works, Levivier invigorates the bond with Nature. The veins of a majestic tree, read in the filigree of her weavings and laser engravings, reconnect us to our roots in the earth – a perspective too often lacking in our world in crisis. And with Nature as her primary source of inspiration, summoning up the luminous horizon of a clearing or the intoxicating dazzle of snow, she also speaks of the anguishing melting of glaciers, the burnt woods of great fires, the night torn apart by the madness of men without humanity... For the Self is all these things at once, and the textile, at once supple and enveloping, sculpted and tortured, a symbol of humanity and history, says something of this world we desperately hope will improve.