Naughty Embroideries Depicting Woman's Pleasure By Katell Gélébart

Katell Gélébart: Interdisciplinary Ecodesigner, Artist & Environmental Educator.

Graduated from La Sorbonne University and the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, France, Gélébart is an ecodesigner, environmental educator and artist. From Art director of ARTDECO&DESIGN, a company producing design items in re-used materials (Netherlands,(Ukraine),  lecturer of  the design Modul : Men/Environment at NABA, New Academy of Fine Arts) Milan/Italy to free lance for crafts organizations/companies in re-designing with their wastes in India , she is also a Ted X speaker and  the subject of a book  "Die Mülldesignerin: Wie Katell Gélébart die Welt verändert" / Katell Gelebart, the trash-designer who is changing the world.

She is also the recipient of KAIROS, the European Cultural Award by the A.Toepfer foundation in Germany to honor “ a creative visionary revisiting what’s already there” . Her retrospective Solo  Show WAS DA IST , Museum für Kunst&Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany was a success.

Fig.1  Katell Gélébart

Artist Statement

I have transposed my vision of eco designer about using the old to make the new, to combine it with a craft and create a new narrative

I like to show that a creative can be light on the planet  without adding pollution using toxic substances or new material for that purpose.

Here, I have used vintage bed sheets and the craft of embroidery, I like to use low tech’ (versus high tech), my hands and a precious raw material called TIME to create art works. The large amount of time put into the work is a form of worship.

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Naughty Series

Woman’s Pleasure

This series of embroideries on linen bed sheets is the fruit of a man and a woman meeting on Tinder and starting a chat conversation on WhatsApp (fig.5). It arouses desire and pleasure in both of them. This leads the woman (the artist.) to transcend her libido into a work of embroidery and give birth to the series: Woman’s Pleasure.

Embroidery, an ancestral feminine tradition replayed:

"Apparently ornamental and harmless……I transcend this art of the "housewife" by excellence, by giving it a free discourse, in strong contact with raw reality". With needlework, I escape and become shameless and rebel," says Gélébart.

The woman’s sensual pleasure seen from the eyes of a woman or how to show it, implicit or erotic, with a craft that is truly hers.

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You can check out more about Katell Gélébart's and her work on her site Katellgelebart.com