Magzoid Magazine - Luxury Magazine in the Creative Space | January 2022

I am very inspired by
the past, everything
that relates to
innocence and
nostalgia, says Cécile
Davidovici
- Exclusive to Magzoid
Cécile Davidovici is an
embroidery artist from
Paris. She had a creative
childhood and studied
drama, film, and theatre,
going on to write and direct movies
exploring the link between innocence
and illusion. After finishing drama
and theater studies, Cécile set to
review filmmaking in New York town
as her next step. While in NYC, the
movies that she wrote and directed
have been displayed at festivals
throughout the world, some receiving
multiple awards.
She discovered embroidery after
losing her mother and began to
stitch images of her fading childhood
memories. Still working to her themes
of innocence and illusion, she
wanted to capture and consider the
hazy moments from her past, that
she had glimpsed in old family home
movie videotapes. Davidovici has
been able to adapt this new medium
to permit herself to anchor her art
within the moment. Creating the
medium of textiles her own, twiddling
with threads in the manner a painter
would with paint, she is carving out
her own niche within the complex
world of contemporary art.
Portraits of a constant dream is a
series of feminine portraits, entirely
hand embroidered. They portray a
close-up of one face that becomes
two, with no clue on the era. The
faces are nearly identical, however,
one is often bigger, more present,
hiding half of the other.
The meticulous intertwining of
threads that depict skin creates a
new form of transparency that unveils
the person behind the face. These
women stare at us but in reality,
they are looking within themselves,
questioning their contradictions,
revealing their doubts. Their
openness and vulnerability even
allow the audience to see a part
of themselves when looking at the
Creating the medium of
textiles her own, twiddling
with threads in the manner
a painter would with
paint, she is carving out
her own niche within
the complex world of
contemporary art.
subjects. Davidovici places her
own unique spin on the medium of
textiles and by layering threads as
a painter would with a paintbrush,
she re-interprets the face differently,
giving a new shape to these faces,
opening a door for a reinvention, a
new skin, a new story.
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