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Embroidery has always fascinated me, whether it was a monogram on a handkerchief or the more elaborate seams of colorful, textured textiles. Their tactility, their completely bewildering back sides, the hidden thread trails, the contour that “stitches” and caresses at the same time, all these observations turned working with the sewing machine into a territory where the drawing always had “two faces.”

In a book dedicated to the “threads” of contemporary art, more precisely the trends associated with embroidery, the author Charlotte Vannier recalled a passage from the philosopher Arthur …