Emma Boittiaux

Emma Boittiaux works semi-autobiographically using photography, writing, embroidery and print

to examine collective experience. With ideas of safety and tenderness at the forefront, life’s bruises become manifest through anexploration of her own ties with the land, masculinity, violence and relationships.

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Based in London, Boittiaux was born in Normandy, France. The intimacy of her grandmother’s linen

runs through her work, bringing the rhythm of rural France to her process and embodying traces of a place

she left a decade ago.  A lyrical dichotomy plays out through the slowness of the embroidery, the immediacy of digital photography and the centrality of research and writing. The decision to embroider every bead by hand

onto the linen ground is an ode to a rhythm where slowness has become an act of resistance.

 

For Boittiaux, slowing down in our embrace with the work, our communities and environment, 

is the only way – de faire lien. Boittiaux is crafting a world that moves with care and gentleness,

continuously oscillating between comforting beauty and discomfort of the unresolved.