GENEVIÈVE LEVIVIER Belgium, b. 1963

Geneviève Levivier's experimental and conceptual artistic approach incorporates art, science and philosophy with a keen sense of materiality. The artist works with natural fibers, recycled textiles and plants, as well as with digital and artisanal techniques. The textiles and artefacts are her way of poetically restoring her links with the earth and the world, to render its nuances and the complex, paradoxical feelings it generates, particularly in these troubled times. Playing freely with textile plasticity, the works bring together myriad techniques including painting, dyeing, printing, photography, braiding, crochet, knitting, weaving, laser, sculpture, and installations. Working at once on fragility and resistance, beauty and loss, her work integrates the many symbolic meanings embedded in textiles that accompany us from life to death, embellish our daily lives, protect us, and ultimately disintegrate.

The artist has exhibited widely including at DOGA Museum, Oslo (2024); Centre d'Art Contemporain Abbaye de Neimenster, Luxembourg (2022); New-York Textile Month, New-York (2022 and 2019); Musée du Textile, Bourgoin Jailleux, France (2020); Musée Van Buuren, Brussels (2020); Design Museum, Ghent (2019) Collection d'Art Publique de la Province du Brabant Wallon (acquisition) and Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth (2020); Abbaye de Villers-la-Ville, Belgium (2019); MUBE Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paulo (2014); Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Lille (2015); Pavillon de France, Exposition Universelle de Milan, 2015; Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris (2014); Triennale di Milano, Milan (2013), among others.