GENEALOGY

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Artist: Emmanuelle RAPIN

Title: GENEALOGY

Attribution: Genealogie, 2024 Emmanuelle Rapin

Year: 2024

Materials: Plaster, rose branch and thorn, cotton thread embroidery on copper wire.

Dimensions: 90 × 28 × 11 cm

Image Statement: I embroidered the word GENEALOGIE with white cotton thread onto two copper wires. It unfolds vertically, resembling a fragile spine. Connected to a dried rose branch, this structure highlights a genealogy that extends beyond the human sphere to root itself in nature. The rose branch, fragile yet persistent, embodies the biological and symbolic roots that link humanity to its environment. A "vegetal memory" is inscribed within humanity – a silent yet omnipresent memory. From foundational myths to everyday practices, plants nourish, heal, and inspire, becoming vectors for the transmission of knowledge. The cotton thread, of plant origin, becomes the material support for a textile writing that narrates this continuity between humanity and nature, with each sewn stitch preserving a fragment of this shared memory.