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Emma Cogné

The body of work of textile designer Emma Cogné finds its process in the revaluation and transformation of craft techniques and used materials to highlight their intrinsic value.

Infos

emmacogne.com @cogneemma

Bio

Emma Cogné graduated from the textile design department of La Cambre in Brussels. Her body of work finds its process in the revaluation and transformation of craft techniques and used materials to highlight their intrinsic value. The textile medium is for her a means to widen the sensorial qualities that are specific to spatiality while engaging the personal experience of users. By showing our houses' bare structures and layers, she reveals the unique aspects of matter and color, claiming a bond with her everyday built environment. Her work gives rise to textile pieces of furniture and site-specific art installations that create transitions between the inside and the outside and echo what builds our intimacy needs.

Objects

Clareira

Clareira is a rug created in the Museum of Popular Art in Lisbon. It was born from a collaboration between two designers, Mariana Campos and Ana Paula Abrunhosa, and a Portuguese weaving craftswoman. It is made of reed, the «Stipa Gigantea», a natural fiber from the Beselga area located in the northeast of Portugal. Clareira creates a space of intimacy, as an invitation to relax in the context of a shared environment. Its name, «clearing», refers to the idea of openness and light. We used a braiding technique, called «Ponto», traditionally made by women, to weave a dense and solid weft. The three circles merge into a sensual shape that protects and embraces the body. Around this shape, the fibers emerge in their raw form. They draw soft and sensory borders while creating personal proximity with the user.

Clareira, 2021

Stipa Gigantea, thread linen

173 x 115 x 51 cm