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LOUISE LIMONTAS

Brussels based textile designer and artist, I graduated from La Cambre in 2013.

Infos

louiselimontas.com @louiselimontas

Bio

With an interest for the body as a white page, I have been initiated into fashion design where I discovered the beauty and complexity of creating materials and fabrics. After several work experiences in London, Stockholm and Antwerp I obtained the MAD price for the ETT Tilburg residency which led me to Italy where I worked as a print designer for Erica industria tessile. Always using handdrawing techniques and collages, I design a wide range of prints for several clients.

My experience brought me to create around different “textile” disciplines like bobbin lace, embroidery, printing, weaving or even lasercutting. As a multidisciplinary textile designer I am interrogating craftsmanship’s limits. By experimenting with different handmade and industrial techniques I create drawings and images, materials, shapes.

Objects

DAON TEMPS

The project «Daon temps» is a woven piece that I created and made during an art and textile residency in a village named Daon, in France. By questioning the concept of memory and trace related to the house, I collected objects, impressions and stories shown and told by the inhabitants of the rural village Daon. I interpreted the intimate relation with their houses through photographs, drawings, textile experiments, painting and finally weaving, like fragments of their past.

Forgotten patterns of a carpet, an inscription on a mirror in old flemish « bezie u zelve» (which means look at yourself ), lyrics of an old song on an old child’s plate, artificial silk flowers disposed in a wall mounted candelabra, a round staircase, a postoffice uniform, a chinese puzzle, ceramic tiles, a surname which has the same name as a twill weave, a citroên hearse that I found in the garden of a stone carver,....

Those particular, personal and sentimental elements of each person in the village also enrolls a universal language. The 8 m long final artwork is handwoven with a double weft technique and has been handpainted on the warp threads (directly on the loom) before weaving. The piece merged from a long and meditative process that weaving procures to me and is the result of an intimate dialogue with every single encounter.