Exhibition guide
The exhibition "The fabric of dreams" offers a rereading of the notion of textile art through works by artists from raw art, singular art and surrealism. It brings together bold and poetic textile creations, often made from modest and recycled materials. This project is the result of a collaboration between the International Centre for Surrealism and Global Citizenship in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie and the Halle Saint Pierre, in a common desire to promote a responsible approach to exhibitions.
Visit details
- Dates: From Friday 12 September 2025 to Friday 31 July 2026: Sunday from 12:00 to 18:00 Saturday from 11:00 to 19:00 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from 11:00 to 18:00
- Venue: Halle Saint Pierre, 2, rue Ronsard, Paris
- Price: 11 euros
- Audience: All audiences
- Source: Event page
About the exhibition
By convoking a material little used by raw and surreal artists, we discover the particular relationship this medium has with creation when it becomes a space for exploration and experimentation. Clothing, decorative and creative uses are reinvented in the service of a true vocabulary of imagination.
Historically linked to movable arts or domestic practices, textiles have been affirmed as an object of artistic appropriation and cultural and community incarnation. It thus questions the gender assignment, the boundaries between art and crafts, the status of the textile artefact in the face of ornament, text or architecture, to the point of becoming a preferred medium for poetic escape.
The exhibition The fabric of dreams brings together 36 artists who explore the changing boundaries of textiles where traditional know-how and plastic experimentation merge. Whether they take on the ancestral techniques of weaving, embroidery, tapestry, lace, macramé, knitting or sewing, they do so in an innovative, singular or subversive way.
Natural, synthetic, raw or recycled materials are inspiring and the textile is then surface, volume, landscape or body. From installations suspended from painted textiles, from sculptural fabrics to wall hangings, from minimalism to the richness of detail, each work questions our relationship to matter, time, and memory. Whether it is a bearer of intimate stories or collective stories, the thread acts here as a sensitive language. Textile becomes a medium of resistance, emotion and transmission.