Here, embroidery is used to convey meaning rather than decoration. Through thread, the artists work with themes of memory, identity, and displacement, turning the medium into a way of reflecting on personal and collective experience.
Some of the works draw from family histories and archives, tracing what is remembered, lost, or transformed over time. Others engage with traditional techniques, using them to speak about cultural continuity and change. In some cases, embroidery becomes a way to process time itself.
Across these practices, thread is used to build images, but also to hold tension: between past and present, individual and collective, control and uncertainty. The works move between abstraction and figuration, but remain focused on how meaning can be constructed through material and process.
Margaux Derhy
Margaux Derhy works between Paris and Morocco, drawing on her French and Moroccan-Berber background. Through painting and embroidery, she explores memory, migration, and layered identity.
Her work often engages with photographic archives and fragments of personal and collective history. She focuses on what is lost, altered, or left unspoken through processes of displacement and transformation.
She also runs an embroidery studio in Massa, where she works with and trains a team of local women, connecting traditional techniques with contemporary practice.