Introduced to embroidery at an early age by her grandmother, Sandrine TORREDEMER has never stopped embroidering, a passion that became almost a necessity when her life was turbulent. Over this long period, her artistic approach gradually freed itself from all the technical constraints of traditional embroidery, becoming less academic, less perfect, more personal and more sensitive.
This second life given to materials is also her own, since she gave up her first professional activity to devote herself exclusively to embroidery. From her background in urban planning, she has retained a certain eye for urban forms and architecture, which she reproduces in small touches, sometimes insisting on attention-grabbing details.
Sandrine Torredemer embroiders scenes from everyday life, inspired by press photos, art photographs or her own clichés, particularly the seashore during “summer vacations”, when everything seems suspended and lighter.
“For me, these assemblages of “bits of nothing” bear witness to our fragile lives, and to the possibility of reconstruction, against the backdrop of unbridled consumerism,” confides the artist.
Perpignan, France
May 2025
