July 29, 2024
Silk room, an exhibition by Eva Jospin at Orangerie of Versailles Palace until September 29th. Exhibition
Inspired by the Embroidery Room of the Palazzo Colonna in Rome and Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, Silk Room is a triumph of
embroidery. Its landscape-depicting walls, spanning more than 350 m² (3,757 sq. ft.), were produced by the artisans of the Chanakya workshop and
the Chanakya School of Craft in Mumbai, in constant dialogue with Eva Jospin. Each stroke of the artist’s drawing was transfigured into thread
through the use of more than 400 shades of silk, cotton, and jute skeins, creating an installation in the style of 19 th -century panoramas, which
colorimetric was done with the help of Stéphanie Ovide, textile conservator and expert in naturel dyes. Invited by Maria Grazia Chiuri, Eva Jospin
previously presented Silk Room at the Dior Fall-Winter 2020–2021 haute couture fashion show at the musée Rodin in Paris.
For this exhibition, Eva Jospin has enriched her work with two new embroidery panels inspired by the groves and gardens of Versailles,
particularly the fabled Labyrinth Grove, demolished in the 18 th century, as well as the trellised galleries encircling the Enceladus Grove.
Born in 1975, Eva Jospin studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. For some 15 years, she has been composing forest and architectural landscapes
in a variety of media. A fellow at the Villa Medici in Rome from 2016 to 2017, her work has been featured at several major exhibitions in France and
abroad, currently including Selva at the Museo Fortuny in Venice and Tromper l’œil, on display at GALLERIA CONTINUA in Paris since May 2023.
The exhibition is on view at the Orangerie of Versailles Palace until 29 th September 2024.
More info: Eva Jospin – Versailles | Palace of Versailles (chateauversailles.fr)
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