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Born in Aix-en-Provence, France, 1948
Lives and works in Paris
Jill Galliéni works mainly in three directions—textile sculpture, drawing with needles and writing that becomes abstraction. She sculpts mysterious yarn-and-fabrics dolls to "build a universe running parallel to [her] reality.” They are huge and motionless, with or without eyes, turned inwards. "They are not on a human scale, they mustn't even look like humans. They are not our doubles, they are our spirit" says the artist. Since 2007, Galliéni has been placing women into groups; she sees them as "dancing souls". She also designs embroidered princesses, on sheer organdie. Their bodies gradually take shape with their features energetically sewn in a sort of electric writing. Alongside her dolls, Galliéni started writing and sewing prayers for Saint Rita, patron saint of lost causes. Illegible, automatic writing forms a design to become a composition. Galliéni’s ally, yarn, helps her to weave, regroup, design, link up, sew. "I get the impression that the innermost feelings, my contradictions and sources of joy are all reflected in my work.”
Jill Galliéni has been on display in personal and collective exhibitions in many institutions like Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, Musée Art et Marges, Brussels, Belgium, Institut Français, New York and Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Selected Permanent Collections
Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Villeneuve d'Asq, France
Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, Angers, France
La Fabuloserie, Dicy, France
Articles
Born in Aix-en-Provence, France, 1948
Lives and works in Paris
Jill Galliéni works mainly in three directions—textile sculpture, drawing with needles and writing that becomes abstraction. She sculpts mysterious yarn-and-fabrics dolls to "build a universe running parallel to [her] reality.” They are huge and motionless, with or without eyes, turned inwards. "They are not on a human scale, they mustn't even look like humans. They are not our doubles, they are our spirit" says the artist. Since 2007, Galliéni has been placing women into groups; she sees them as "dancing souls". She also designs embroidered princesses, on sheer organdie. Their bodies gradually take shape with their features energetically sewn in a sort of electric writing. Alongside her dolls, Galliéni started writing and sewing prayers for Saint Rita, patron saint of lost causes. Illegible, automatic writing forms a design to become a composition. Galliéni’s ally, yarn, helps her to weave, regroup, design, link up, sew. "I get the impression that the innermost feelings, my contradictions and sources of joy are all reflected in my work.”
Jill Galliéni has been on display in personal and collective exhibitions in many institutions like Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, Musée Art et Marges, Brussels, Belgium, Institut Français, New York and Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Selected Permanent Collections
Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Villeneuve d'Asq, France
Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, Angers, France
La Fabuloserie, Dicy, France
Articles
Les Saintes Nitouches, 2015
Textile, 71 x 53 x 45 cm, private collection, Los Angeles
Printemps fou, 2013
Fleurs sur l'autoroute, 2003
Textile, 24 x 30 x 15 cm
Le pensionnat des sables, 2003
Textile, 26 x 24 x 16 cm, private collection, New York
Constellation, 2015
Private collection, Paris
Joyeux rassemblement, 2015
Textile, 21 x 22 x 16 cm
Les sirènes, 2012
Left : Sirène I, plastic bags, 27 x 27 x 22 cm
Right : Sirène II, textile, 21 x 18 x 24 cm
Jardin I, 2007
Textile, 44 x 44 x 26 cm
Vous croyez vraiment? 2003
Textile, 185 x 53 x 50 cm
Le couvent
Private collection, New York
Liesse, 2014
Textile, 12 x 23 x 10 cm
Untitled, "Guirlandes" series, 2015
Original work on paper, ink and pencil, 14.8 x 19.5 cm, private collection Paris
Untitled, "Guirlandes" series, 2015
Original work on paper, ink and pencil, 14.8 x 19.6 cm, private collection Paris
Untitled, "Guirlandes" series, 2015
Ink and pencil on paper, 13.1 x 20.9 cm
Untitled, "Guirlandes" series, 2015
Ink and pencil on paper, 14.8 x 19.5 cm
Untitled, "Guirlandes" series, 2015
Ink and pencil on paper, 14.8 x 19.5 cm
Untitled, "Guirlandes" series, 2015
Ink and pencil on paper, 13.2 x 21 cm
Untitled, "Guirlandes" series, 2015
Ink and pencil on paper, 13.2 x 21 cm, private collection, Bordeaux
Trois princesses, 2010
Textile, 33 x 23 cm
Princesse E, 2010
Textile, 32 x 16 cm
Princesse F, 2010
Textile, 35 x 20 cm