An artistic sisterhood

A year ago, Studio Mo-mo, based in the Drôme Provençale region, held an artistic residency inviting several artisans and designers to work together. All of them were women. “In artisanal work, many women have taken over practices where their presence wasn’t expected”, explains Adeline Cathelin, the founder of this studio, a true creative lab designed to promote local craftsmanship that’s part design and part craft. During their collaboration, Léa Bigot, Pia Chevalier, Pauline Esparon, and Audrey Guimard shared their techniques with wood, glass, stone, ceramics, wicker, and textiles. Out of this residency, the 001 collective emerged, for whom Studio Mo-mo produced an initial collection. “We don’t advocate for a specific cause; we just like working together. You can feel a real feminine sensibility in the work. The innovation comes from the human connections we’ve created. Such is the power of collective intelligence.” Adeline Cathelin will share about this experience during a talk on September 7th at the Maison&Objet fair, under the theme of "From the Studio to the Gallery: Women’s Voices, Creative Spaces”. Similarly, Julia Bidermann, founder of the peripatetic PickUp Art gallery, is almost surprised to find that the exhibition she is presenting at Paris Design Week will only include women designers. Its theme: color. Among the five participants, we find Wendy Andreu and her Squeeze glass vases, Amélie Caussade’s plaster sculptures, which are as colorful as candy, Camille Romagnani’s work with seeds, mixed earth by Forma, and illuminated glass totems by Marie-Victoire Winckler. For Julia Bidermann, “These are five strong personalities that represent the contemporary female design scene.”

Cover: Marie-Victoire Winckler - Pick Up Art ©DR -- SCRIBE - léa bigot - claire pegis - studio mo-mo - tissage margot graziani ©vé studio