Materials: Himalayan wool and metallic yarn
Density: 150 000 knots/m²
Golden Cage, inspired by Jacques Prévert’s poem Pour faire le portrait d’un oiseau, translates a reflection on waiting, absence and freedom into the language of textiles.
A grid of golden threads forms a cage whose weave evokes both protection and confinement. An opening in the mesh, like a possible passage, gives way to an escape route: it is through this crack that the bird is said to have flown away.
A subtle gradation of materials, from wool to plant-based silk, interacts with the light.
A bronze bird accompanies Golden Cage without ever settling upon it. It can be placed nearby, moved, almost forgotten elsewhere in the space. Its mobility extends the narrative beyond the tapestry, suggesting that the essence lies not in the representation but in what is released from it.
What remains is the trace, the void, and this tension between what holds back and what opens up. Through this textile work, the idea of a comfort that confines as much as it reassures takes shape in the background, along with the ever-present possibility of breaking free from it.
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« First, paint a cage
with an open door
then paint something pretty
something simple
something beautiful
something useful
for the bird »
Jacques Prévert
Excerpt from the poem
Pour faire le portrait d’un oiseau