Chloe Bensahel is a Franco-American artist who combines performance, weaving and multimedia in order to shed light on the links between language and identity. A graduate of Parsons School in New York, she began her career as an assistant to Sheila Hicks as well as working alongside textile artists in Kyoto. Between 2016 and 2018, she undertook a number of residencies in Australia (Australian Tapestry Workshop,) Japan (Awagami Paper Factory) and the United States (Halcyon Arts Lab), before moving to France where she worked as an artist-in-residence at the Mobilier National.

During a residency at the Manufacture de Beauvais in partnership with the Google Arts and Culture Foundation, she benefited from the expertise of the lissiers, specialist technicians who both prepare the looms for weaving and make the tapestries. This experience enabled her to add a new dimension to French tapestry by weaving a material which, when touched, activates sounds, lights and other connected devices. Her technique introduces a new way of telling stories, whether through the gentleness of a caress or the vitality of dance. Her most recent work that will be shown within this exhibition, turns to plants such as nettles and invasive weeds to imagine how the history of a place might be told through its flora.

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