Laure Marville

For those familiar with Laure Marville's work – rigorous, geometrical abstract motifs painted on wooden panels, complex combinations of shapes emerging from her interest in pop music, interior décor and Swiss folklore - 'Lauriers', presented at Société des Arts might come as a surprise. Here the Geneva and Lausanne-based artists mixes linocut and wool knitting to form dense, colourful, text-based compositions. Atlases of references as well as surfaces on which the artist seems to have inscribed reading notes and intimate souvenirs, the pieces constitute an unfolded journal that associates names of friends, planets and plants. In fact, it seems that 'Lauriers' uses its particular fabric-based materiality and the gesture of knitting as a statement on craftsmanship, taste and folk art, as well as a manifesto discreetly claiming domesticity, friendship and organic collaboration.
- Yann Chateigné